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Re: why doesn't binutils-2.6-1 provide a shared library?



> >It could.  There is already some support for it in the Makefiles.  I
> >chose to leave it for the eventual maintainer to add since it has
> >packaging and support ramifications.  BTW, I did the same for libg++.
> 
> Who's going to be the maintainer?  I'd want to talk with them some about
> it.

Siggy Brentrup (bsb@uni-muenster.de) has volunteered, but the last I
heard, he was still having network problems.

> >The -D option is now needed to list the dynamic symbols in a shared
> >library that can not be stripped.  You'll have to ask the binutils
> >developers why they did this.
> 
> Ick.  Would that be of the GNU package or of the linux shared library
> specs (gcc folks).

The GNU folks.

David
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