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Re: How to get top-level library installed in lib/gcc-lib/...?



> > 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.
> 
> But don't expect this stability with the first release.  Beside that
> we certainly have some changes to the code afterwards we still have
> some outstanding incompatibilities introduced by compiler changes.

I understand, but I believe that by the time we are ready to include your
new code in a release, the interface will be stable enough so that we
can link an older binary against a newer shared library and have it work
(since the exported symbols are pretty much set by the spec).


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