libgcc_s, Linux, and PT_GNU_EH_FRAME, and binutils

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> What's so hard on upgrading glibc?

It requires root access.

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> People building their own GCC -- rather than getting stuff from a
> GNU/Linux distributor -- are going to have a harder time.  But, they're
> doing things the hard way; I don't mind that.

I do.

Both of you are making assumptions which simply are not correct. Just
consider students working on theses in some student lab or network at
a university: There, you neither have root access, nor are you necessarily
an experienced GCC developer/user, but still you might need to install
an up-to-date version of GCC in your home directory for your work.

Been there, done that (and became a GCC regular because of that).

Gerald
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