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Re: GCC-3.0.1 can't compile Glibc-2.2.4
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:46:07PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:58:00PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > > Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:04:02 -0700
> > > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> >
> > > libc.so may be compiled on a different machine with gcc 3 and the
> > > target machine may not have gcc 3.0 installed.
> >
> > I think this makes about as much sense as compiling an application
> > with glibc 2.2 for a target machine that might not have glibc 2.2
> > installed.
>
> What makes you think that? On the target machine, the only binary
> compiled with gcc 3 may be just libc.so. Requiring installing the
> gcc used to compile libc.so to install libc.so is a new thing to
> glibc.
If you're going to install any program compiled with gcc 3.0, at least
libgcc_s.so.1 ought to be present. What's unreasonable about that?
Not all of GCC needs to be.
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