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Re: PATCH: Fix Darwin bootstrap


Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> The Darwin version of ranlib does not make common definitions
> available in the archive table of contents -- unless you pass it the
> "-c" option.  Most other versions of ranlib do make such definitions
> available, and GCC presently depends on that behavior, accidentally.
>
> (On a meta note, how is libbackend.a a win?  I'd love it if we really
> have a library for the back end, but we don't, and to get there we
> need to change the code, not the build process.  Right now, it seems
> like building this .a file is just a way of slowing down the
> bootstrap...)

I believe it was mainly to work around command-line length limits when
passing the complete .o file list to ld.

zw


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