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HJ's patch to libio works on Red Hat 4.2/libc 5.3.12
- To: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: HJ's patch to libio works on Red Hat 4.2/libc 5.3.12
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 97 13:07:53 PDT
- Cc: drepper at ipd dot info dot uni-karlsruhe dot de, egcs at cygnus dot com
HJ wrote:
> > > Please discard my previous libio patch. This patch should
> > > fix both glibc 2 and libc 5. Please let me know the result
> > > on libc 5.3.12 on linux/x86.
Ulrich suggested changing __ELF__ to
> > #if defined __linux__ && defined __ELF__
I installed HJ's patch, as modified according to Ulrich's suggestion,
and all libio tests pass on a straight Red Hat 4.2 system.
Congratulations, HJ! To be more thorough we should try more cases,
but I feel *much* better now about egcs on Linux and its accessibility
to non-hackers, if anyone with a relatively standard system only
has to download, configure, make bootstrap-lean, make install to
get going from source, and doesn't have to find and install other
packages.
I think this is good enough to satisfy my main concern. I don't feel
that similar efforts to support older glibc setups are anywhere near
as important, though the "completely separate libio" option is still
a possibility.
Joe