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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- To: obrien at NUXI dot com
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 13:05:30 -0700
- Cc: chip at valinux dot com, jfasch at hyperwave dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <200004260820.KAA15228@hwiw01.hyperwave.com><20000427172937.I570@perlsupport.com><20000501124042.A23282@dragon.nuxi.com>
>>>>> "David" == David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com> writes:
David> I agree with Joerg. On FreeBSD platforms the abilility to
David> easily configure the GCC build to only create .a's is
David> mandatory. Since you did not buy Joerg's arguments, you
David> will not buy mine. BUT meeting our needs is easy, and you
David> should allow others to develop their product as they see
David> fit.
I think it's already been decided that any and all libraries shipped
with GCC will be provided in static form, even if they are also
provided in shared form. So, there will be both a libgcc.a and a
libgcc.so, for example, just as we presently do for libstdc++.
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