Re: PATCH: Support dynamic libraries on FreeBSD/i386

[Loren James Rittle <rittle at latour dot rsch dot comm dot mot dot com>]

In article <877kvodudl.fsf@creche.redhat.com>,
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Loren" == Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> writes:
Loren> (Humm: How about we unconditionally define DYNAMIC_LOADING when
Loren> configured to build a dynamic version of boehm-gc?  That way we will
Loren> fail to compile dyn_load.c instead of building an untenable situation
Loren> to be debugged later.)

> This sounds reasonable to me.

OK, I will produce that patch.

Loren> 2001-08-20  Loren J. Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
Loren> * doc/debugging.html: Add another likely problem and solution.
Loren> * dyn_load.c: Enable existing code path which supports FreeBSD.
Loren> * include/private/gcconfig.h (FREEBSD): Define DYNAMIC_LOADING.

> I haven't seen a response from Hans.  In any case, I think this is
> fine for the trunk.  If Hans ends up doing it differently, we can
> always correct things to follow his version.

Hans has been away from e-mail according to an auto-response I got
last week.  Since this one is straightforward and fully debugged (in
my mind), I will install it.

Thanks,
Loren