Re: more severe breakage

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From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Sun Jan 10 1999 - 19:16:39 EST


Alexandre Oliva writes:
> On Jan 10, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> > More things that broke: the moddi3/-lgcc hack does not work anymore.
> > On FreeBSD 3.0 with elftools, ModuloTest fails like so again:
> > ModuloTest ... failed: output saved to ModuloTest.fail
>
> The -lgcc hack was not supposed to affect FreeBSD3, and libtool should
> use gcc -shared to create shared libraries on FreeBSD3, so I don't
> understand where the problem comes from. What is the link command
> that libtool uses to create libkaffevm.so*?

Essentially all versions of FreeBSD need the -lgcc hack, since it
was only fixed a month ago or so (after 2.2.8 and 3.0 were released).
When FreeBSD 3.1 is released (soon) then we can detect versions >=
3.1 and not install the hack in that case. But FreeBSD 3.0 and 2.x
all need it.

-Archie

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