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Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> Re this: Your point is that now libgcc_s.so is in this category of
> libraries which have to be unique, I think. Is this or is it not
> adequately handled by installing libgcc_s.so in /lib?
>
Yes. But who is responsible putting libgcc_s.so in /lib? Say RedHat
8.0 has gcc 3.0.1 with libgcc_s.so in /lib. Now a RedHat 8.0 user
wants to try gcc of the day from CVS or gcc 3.0.2. Will the new
libgcc_s.so be configured/built and where will it be installed? What
if there is a bug in the new gcc which miscompiles libgcc_s.so? It may
bring down the while machine. Do you think Red Hat will recommend the
random users to try new gcc and install libgcc_s.so under /lib?
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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)