Libunwind and libgcc on ia64

[H. J. Lu]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 05:38:40PM +0200, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
> On ia64 libgcc.so is linked to libunwind.so, which means (a) libgcc requires 
> libunwind and (b) anything linking dynamically against libgcc doesn't need to 
> know or care about libuniwnd.
> That changes if one tries to link statically (like my glibc) - then the build 
> system must explicitly check what gcc we're running and if it's the libunwind 
> one - add -lunwind.
> Wouldn't it be a lot nicer if libgcc.a contained libunwind.a? People wouldn't 
> have to care about explicit support for ia64.

This should be fixed in gcc 4.0 and 3.4 branch. If it doesn't work
as expected, please open a bug report.


H.J.