Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>]

> Cc: Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
> Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
> Date: 20 Feb 2001 03:41:16 -0300
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> On Feb 18, 2001, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:
> 
> > Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:
> >> My pain also comes from keeping three production versions of gcc on my
> >> alpha box for various purposes and two test versions.  In the future,
> >> if this need for multiple versions of gcc for various reasons continues,
> >> I don't see how I will be able to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH once and be done
> >> with it.
> 
> > In the future, you will just need to use the libgcc.so that is the
> > most recent version, even for earlier versions of GCC.
> 
> Except that this isn't exactly a good way of testing random versions
> of GCC, especially if a bug turns out to be in the implementation of
> libgcc :-)

I would expect that you'd be using it without putting it in /lib,
unless you really like excitement :-).

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>