Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:35:10PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > A shared libgcc looks necessary to resolve problems of it's being
> > linked in multiple times by a program.  But for a shared libgcc to
> > work reliably it must be in /lib.   So we need gcc's make install to
> > put it there with an appropriate version number.
> 
> No.  Here, for example, we install GCC from an account different than
> root.
> 
> And even if we would install as root, `make install` should *not* do
> anything about /lib which is on a local disk, unlike the software which
> is installed on a file server for use by the whole network.
> 
> Not all the world is GNU/Linux. And not all the world is a stand-alone
> machine.
> 

At least GNU/Linux doesn't have the current libc fiasco in FreeBSD :-(.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)