Re: Problems building glibc 2.1.2...
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:
> This is totally my fault, frame.o is a hack introduced by me so that
> libc gets the __*_frame_info symbols on alpha, even though gcc 2.95
> (which introduces DWARF2-based Exception Handling to alpha) can't
> compile glibc on alpha.
> My reasoning for this is that other libraries can get those symbols
> if libc doesn't, and that could cause problems (cf. slink's i386
> __register_frame_info problem).
> The fix is rather simple, just edit $(objdir)/configparms and change
> frame.o to an absolute path instead of relative, I have this fixed
> properly in my tree now.
Ah, ok. It didn't make sense to me initially, but now I understand :-)
I'll fix it here and finish the build. Thanks!
C
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