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Re: an installation bug in either gcc, gld, or readline -- I don'tknow which
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Koenig <ark at research dot att dot com>, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:22:02 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: an installation bug in either gcc, gld, or readline -- I don'tknow which
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Ideally, readline and suchlike need to ask GCC "hey, what linker are you
> using?" and GCC needs to answer in a portable way. Right now this isn't
> possible at either end. Hmmm...
That's why we have libtool, to avoid fixing every package that builds
shared libraries on every platform.
Jeff