My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Tue Jul 11 00:41:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:10:55PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I ask again, why do we need libtool?  What supported platform cannot
> be handled by teaching the Makefile the magic switches to pass to the
> compiler and linker?

We don't, necessarily.  But make in general doesn't have complex
macro expansion.  Which implies we'll have to have some sort of
script-y thing.  Either that or leave the entire library target
in the target makefile fragment.


r~


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