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

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 11:00, 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.

this was in fact the case with glib on hp-ux.  i do not remember the
exact reason, but if glib was built with gcc then you could not use hp's
c compiler to build other things.

jacob
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