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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:15:30 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP - About removing libgcc.so.261 
Message-ID:  <199503101915.LAA07097@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 95 13:56:55 EST." <9503101856.AA14046@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> 

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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.

   Poul modified ld to force it to build with the static version. I'm coming
up right now with a better fix (to cc) that will tell the linker to use the
static version of the library.

-DG



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