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[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 28, 2000, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> wrote:

Alexandre> However, this argument doesn't apply as clearly for
Alexandre> libraries implicitly supplied by the compiler.  IMO, the
Alexandre> compiler should arrange for any libraries it implicitly
Alexandre> links in to be found at run-time, otherwise their inclusion
Alexandre> isn't fully transparent.

> We're going to see this debate come up on the gcc list, because they
> are planning to make libgcc a shared library for gcc 3.  In fact,
> someone should probably start the debate there now and mention that it
> is already an issue for Java.

It's been C++ issue too, for those that configure --enable-shared
--prefix=/whatever

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