repost: libg++ won't build on alphaev56-dec-osf4.0d

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:50:11 -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  In message < 199812240026.TAA23391@blastula.phys.columbia.edu >you write:
>  > 
>  > Do we have the ability to make libgcc a shared library?  I bet this
>  > will fix Alexandre's problem - and I suspect this is the only thing
>  > that will fix all the related problems.
>Doing so opens up a whole new can-o-worms.  We discussed this at length about
>a year ago.
>
>Though many of the problems probably could be eliminated by moving libgcc.sl
>out of libsubdir and handle libgcc.sl in a manner similar to libstdc++.sl

I was afraid of that.  I shall go read the archives.

I'm really at a loss how to fix the Linux problem any other way.
Well, a new linker mode would do it, but that isn't portable.

zw