[PATCH] Some inconsistency in collect2, with respect to gcc and libtool

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 10, 2000, Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr> wrote:

> So, this means that, right now, we are seeing C++ systems that use
> libtool (1.3 ?), and that work only on selected systems...

Actually, it probably only works on GNU/Linux and on some
installations of Solaris.  That's why libtool is being extended to
support C++ in general.

Unfortunately, even g++ won't work correctly on non-ELF systems.  I'm
talking about implicit instantiation of template static data members,
for example.  It is my understanding that this just can't be done
correctly on COFF, for example :-(

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