Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 18, 2001, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:

> Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:
>> My pain also comes from keeping three production versions of gcc on my
>> alpha box for various purposes and two test versions.  In the future,
>> if this need for multiple versions of gcc for various reasons continues,
>> I don't see how I will be able to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH once and be done
>> with it.

> In the future, you will just need to use the libgcc.so that is the
> most recent version, even for earlier versions of GCC.

Except that this isn't exactly a good way of testing random versions
of GCC, especially if a bug turns out to be in the implementation of
libgcc :-)

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