From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 10:57:38 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA21850 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:57:38 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA21844 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:57:35 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA14046; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 13:56:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 13:56:55 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503101856.AA14046@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP - About removing libgcc.so.261 In-Reply-To: <199503101758.JAA04141@ref.tfs.com> References: <199503100926.BAA01428@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> <199503101758.JAA04141@ref.tfs.com> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant