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Re: vismain failure
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:32:53PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:36:49 -0700
> From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
>
> Glibc doesn't use the ELF visibility directly. But it uses it
> indirectly via __dso_handle in crtbegin.o/crtend.o. That is if gcc
> is built by the binutils with the ELF visibility support, glibc will
> use it:
>
> This happens only if you're using GCC snapshots. IMHO the GCC folks
> shouldn't make use of the ELF visibility stuff if the installed
> binutils don't correctly support it. I'm sure they will take care of
> it in the official 3.0 release. On the glibc side, we shouldn't force
> people to upgrade their binutils if it's not strictly necessary. GCC
> 2.95.2 together with binutils 2.10 works fine for compiling glibc,
I cannot get gcc 2.95.2 to compile glibc 2.2 from CVS. I have to use
the gcc snapshot. I have no choice.
H.J.