Trick or treat?

[H. J. Lu]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:03:58PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Andrew Pinski wrote:
> >
> >On Nov 1, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >
> >>The first GCC 3.4.3 release candidate is available here:
> >>
> >>  ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/prerelease-3.4.3-20041031/
> >>
> >>I'm unlikely to hold up the 3.4.3 release for anything less than a 
> >>serious regression from 3.4.2; the primary goal is simply to release 
> >>the bug fixes that have been accumulated since 3.4.2.
> >>
> >>If you find problems, please file them in Bugzilla and add me to the 
> >>CC: list; please do *not* send reports directly to me without entering 
> >>them in Bugzilla.
> >
> >
> >There is one big bug which is already filed and is a regression from
> >3.4.2.  IA64-linux does not compile if you don't have libunwind
> >installed already.
> 
> There have been a huge number of patches, of a rather fragile nature, 
> relating to libgcc and libunwind and symbol versioning and such.  Far 
> too much complexity.
> 
> I don't know enough about IA64 GNU/Linux to know if we need to care 
> about systems without libunwind installed or not.

libunwind can come from gcc, just like libgcc_s.so. Right now, we
assume system comes with libgcc_s.so, which is wrong:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-09/msg00209.html

I opened a meta bug:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17464

to cover gcc shared libraries.


H.J.