an installation bug in either gcc, gld, or readline -- I don't know which

[Jeff Sturm]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Ideally, readline and suchlike need to ask GCC "hey, what linker are you
> using?" and GCC needs to answer in a portable way.  Right now this isn't
> possible at either end.  Hmmm...

That's why we have libtool, to avoid fixing every package that builds
shared libraries on every platform.

Jeff