Re: libgcc_s, Linux, and PT_GNU_EH_FRAME, and binutils

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 05:57:11AM -0400, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:11:59AM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > That's why I propose that in order to build g++ 3.2 interoperable with
> > everyone else glibc 2.2.5+, binutils 2.12.1+ and --enable-shared
> > --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit is required.
> > We could even cook up a testsuite which wether g++/libgcc_s/libstdc++ follow
> > those requiremenets.
> 
> I think it would be reasonable to actively fail the configure
> on Linux if these requirements are not met.  Otherwise it's
> sure to be the case that someone won't read this even if we
> were to document it properly.
> 
> Mark, what do you think?

As long as there is a configure option to build anyway.  That's an
awful lot of released systems you're talking about not building on!

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer