Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:27:40PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> It's not silly.  There are very good reasons for such a setup and it's
> entirely gcc fault.  I've pointed this out over and over again in the
> last years, trying to fight this shared libgcc.  But of course nobody
> listens.

Oh give me a break.  You are hardly a lone voice crying in the
wilderness.  We heard you.  We listened.  We did not agree that
this is sufficient reason not to build a shared libgcc.

> The best solution is to override the decision and not compile libgcc
> as a DSO.

You can do this on your own system of course: --disable-shared.
Don't expect that to ever be the default though.  I for one do
not think this is the best solution.


r~