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Re: [Fortran] where is -lfrtbegin?
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:39:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Fortran] where is -lfrtbegin?
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <200205261558.g4QFw9ta032700@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
"Steven G. Kargl" wrote:
> Why was main.o split out into a separate library? The
> ChangeLog entry for libfrtbegin.a doesn't contain
> any info about why this change was required.
It was necessary to get libg2c.a flying as a shared library. It was
done during a flurry of updates as we found errors with this
change-over. This might explain (but not justify) the shallow ChangeLog
entry.
Sorry,
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