A clue for the libstdc++ problem.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  1, 2001, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> Please keep in mind that building the shared libstdc++ is a special
> case, just like building libc.so.

It's not just like building libc.so.  The main difference is that we
don't have a compiler driver that won't link in libc by default, but
gcc will not link libstdc++ in, whereas g++ will.  Arranging for us to
use gcc while building libstdc++ is enough.  We don't have to pollute
libtool scripts with this special case.  Especially with assumptions
about directory names, which strikes me as a very bad idea.

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