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Re: [www] 3.2 ABI Compatibility issues


On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:31:57PM -0700, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> 
> > +    <p>GCC is configured by default on GNU/Linux systems also with
> > +    these two flags, do not change them to any another value:</p>
> > +    <pre>
> > +      --enable-threads=posix -enable-shared 
> > +    </pre>
> >      <p>If you do not use these options, your files generated by GCC
> >      will not be fully ABI compatible.</p>
> 
> Loren has indicated that --enable-threads=posix is the default for BSD
> as well. So really, at this point, I think your instructions are valid
> for both BSD's and Linux.

So we require BSD folks to use glibc (I'm aware of Bruno Haible's FreeBSD
glibc port but am not sure all the BSD folks would like this)?

	Jakub


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