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Re: How to get top-level library installed in lib/gcc-lib/...?
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: How to get top-level library installed in lib/gcc-lib/...?
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 98 18:59:44 PDT
- Cc: d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk, egcs at cygnus dot com
> There have been discussions about moving libstdc++ into libsubdir,
> but no real decision was ever made. There's pros and cons to moving
> it into libsubdir.
Here's a vote against. Once Uli Drepper's rewrite is complete, the
interface to libstdc++ is going to be very stable; Linux users are
going to want it in /usr/lib.
> Consider what happens if you move it into libsubdir and it's built
> as a shared library.
Exactly. It seems sensible when it changes from version to version, but
in the near future we will move away from that, and people will then
be asking us to switch back.