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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