GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 05:49:15PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> I am late on this topic. Sorry if it has been resolved.

We have not yet discussed where to put the thing yet.
We've only been covering the "is it even a good idea" part.

> If we make libgcc.so, where do we put it? I hope it won't be in
> /prefix/lib/gcc-lib/cpu-vendor-os/version.

For systems in which gcc is the system compiler, I would want the
distribution maker to put it where the other system libraries go.
This would be critical for a system in which libc.so linked against
libgcc.so, as I would hope glibc eventually does.

As for what happens when a user installs the compiler into a 
non-default location -- well, we don't have to make a decision
on that now.

> If we can encode the libgcc ABI into it's soname...

That is probably counter productive if we've done the symbol
versioning correctly.  For systems that don't support that
sort of thing it might be an option.


r~