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Re: libstdc++ compatibility
- To: Cristian Gafton <gafton at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: libstdc++ compatibility
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:50:30 -0600
- cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9810180933211.2007-100000@alien.devel.redhat.com>yo
u write:
> > Any Red Hat folks reading this? It would be nice to have a version that
> > you don't have to patch (give you the right configuration options
> > instead).
>
> I have been playing with egcs 1.1 for a while now, and disabling thread
> support is not a option that I would like to proceed with. Most likely we
> will ship a compatibility package that will include the current libcstdc++
> 2.8 generated by 1.0.3a so that apps linked against this libstdc++ will
> continue to work. (much the saem way we did with libstdc++.2.7.2 in RH
> 5.1)
I'm curious how you do this, do you keep an egcs-1.0.3 compiler around just
to build libstdc++-2.8? Or do you build it with a hacked egcs-1.1? Or do
you distribute a binary?
Just trying to wrap my head around the problem....
jeff