Re: New release of GTK+ libraries (1.3.15). Please test!

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Sander Vesik wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, James Henstridge wrote:
>
> > Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> >
> > > I have used -no-undefined in LDFLAGS in ATK and GAIL to catch problems (mostly 
> > > typos) at compile time rather than run time.
> > >
> > > One could omit -no-undefined, I suppose.
> > Last I checked, the libgcc library isn't meant to be linked against 
> > shared libs, but rather programs (at least, that was the idea before 
> > they started building a shared libgcc (AFAIK)).  So the libs _would_ 
> > have undefined symbols, but they would be resolved against the syms in 
> > the main program.
>
> Well, thats pretty broken if you used gcc to build the library but not the
> program. If you have to know what compiler the shared library was built
> with (and potentially build/link the program with the same one) you are in
> the same situation that was supposed tobe bad about using c++...
Which is why they started providing a shared libgcc...  If someone knows 
the details, it would probably be a lot better to get libtool fixed for 
solaris with gcc (if they made more frequent releases -- its been about 
5 months since the last one).

James.

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