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Re: Problems building shared libraries under Irix6
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Problems building shared libraries under Irix6
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:45:28 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: egcs at cygnus dot com
In message <19971216233439.16166@dot.cygnus.com>you write:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 05:19:34PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > Jim has a patch to move __register_frame and friends elsewhere so that
> > they don't cause multiple symbol definitions. Assuming he thinks the pat
> ch
> > is correct, he should apply it so this problem goes away.
>
> It might be worth considering making libgcc a shared library on at
> least ELF platforms. It would eliminate some of these problems,
> though it would mean we'd have to be more careful with binary
> compatibility and installation.
>
> Just a thought...
Hmmm, I thought we experimented with this a few years ago and decided
it was a bad idea (due to the shlib path problems I suspect).
Compiling libgcc stuff with -fPIC, but not making a shared library
got us most of the benefits without the major headaches.
jeff