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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 1995 13:56:55 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP - About removing libgcc.so.261
Message-ID:  <9503101856.AA14046@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503101758.JAA04141@ref.tfs.com>
References:  <199503100926.BAA01428@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> <199503101758.JAA04141@ref.tfs.com>

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<<On Fri, 10 Mar 1995 09:58:35 -0800 (PST), Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> said:

>> I just ran into a major problem with removing the shared version of
>> gcc (libgcc.so.261.0), it seems that XFree86 3.1 is dynamically linked
>> against this.
> you shouldn't remove it until you are sure you don't need it...

There is a more serious problem: unless GCC is modified, so long as
you have this shared library, `ld' will prefer it to the static
version, thus ensuring that future binaries require it.

-GAWollman

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