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Re: g++ -vs- libgcj
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
Alexandre> On Jun 20, 2000, Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org>
Alexandre> wrote:
>> At least in the context of the GCC tree, we know it is being
>> built with GCC, so we could just use -fPIC and -shared.
Alexandre> I wish it were that simple to create shared libraries
Alexandre> portably. Even when using GCC, there are so many
Alexandre> linker-related differences that we can't keep it that
Alexandre> simple while enabling shared libraries on as many
Alexandre> platforms as possible :-(
Whatever we decide to do, it should probably be the same for libgcj,
libstdc++, and the other runtime support libraries. We've gotten by
this far without libtool -- but I guess you're saying that
--enable-shared doesn't work on some platforms where there is shared
library support?
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