Darwin multilibs

Dara Hazeghi dhazeghi@yahoo.com
Sun May 25 17:57:00 GMT 2003


--- Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:
> Dara Hazeghi <dhazeghi@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > is there any reason we're still building
> soft-float libs on Darwin
> > still? Stan Shebs mentioned in a message back in
> November
> > (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-04/msg01549.html)
> that multilibs
> > weren't strictly necessary on Darwin. Would a
> patch disabling them
> > then be welcome? Thanks,
> 
> I believe that soft-float is used for the kernel and
> drivers.

Fair enough. But what about for other libraries than
libgcc2.a. With a checkout of mainline as of last
night, the following are other multilibbed:
libfrtbegin.a
libg2c.a
libiberty.a
libstdc++.a
libsupc++.a

Do these also need to be built as soft-float for the
benefit of the kernel? Thanks,

Dara

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