Re: why doesn't binutils-2.6-1 provide a shared library?
>>>>> "Darren" == Darren/Torin/Who Ever <torin@daft.com> writes:
Darren> david@elo.ods.com (David Engel), in a magnificent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>> 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++.
I am about to maintain Debian's gcc & friend packages as soon I am
finished downloading to get David's packages, which I tried since he
announced their availability, but due to ba tranatlantic links I never
managed to get more than an MB and that at approx 100cps.
With the ALPHA-TEST tree now being available on european mirrors, I
expect to be up to speed sometime tomorrorw.
Darren> Who's going to be the maintainer? I'd want to talk with
Darren> them some about it.
While I'm open to suggestions, please give me a chance to look at
what's there before expecting me to comment on these issues.
>> 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.
Darren> Ick. Would that be of the GNU package or of the linux shared library
Darren> specs (gcc folks).
Thanks
Siggy
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