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Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
- To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission dot com>
- Subject: Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:35:10 +0100 (CET)
- cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>, <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On 19 Feb 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> A shared libgcc looks necessary to resolve problems of it's being
> linked in multiple times by a program. But for a shared libgcc to
> work reliably it must be in /lib. So we need gcc's make install to
> put it there with an appropriate version number.
No. Here, for example, we install GCC from an account different than
root.
And even if we would install as root, `make install` should *not* do
anything about /lib which is on a local disk, unlike the software which
is installed on a file server for use by the whole network.
Not all the world is GNU/Linux. And not all the world is a stand-alone
machine.
Gerald
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