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Re: Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:
>
> However, touching /lib when --prefix=/usr would go against the
> documentation for --prefix. Rather than doing that, I think configure
> should just print a big warning in that case (when --prefix=/usr
> and --slibdir is not set explicitly). There should be another option
> that you can select which will put it in /lib. Perhaps the
> combination `--prefix=/usr --slibdir=/lib' would suffice for that,
> although I don't think that will do the right thing with symlinks,
> and in any case it might be nicer to have a single option for
> configuring gcc as the "native" compiler. The installation
> documentation and the warning for --prefix=/usr should both
> mention this option.
>
> Does that sound like a good approach?
It sounds close. But the problem is not so much as making gcc the
native compiler, but as making programs compiled with gcc native
programs. A big fat warning about it is definitely in the right
direction.
If you recompile and install a system binary (/bin/sh perhaps) with gcc
and then reboot you need a clue why it didn't work.
Eric