Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  9, 2001, Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> On Jan  9, 2001, David Korn <dkorn@pixelpower.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Wouldn't it be possible to just disable statically linking the shared lib?
>> 
>> The GNU GPL doesn't make any difference between linking with a shared
>> or static library.

> So how does a binary that links (say) HPUX's libc.sl, or Sun's libc.so 
> get allowed?

There's an exception in the GNU GPL that allows linking with standard
components of the operating system.  Read the license for the gory
details.

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