Re: more severe breakage

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 10 1999 - 19:20:50 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.

Given that the hack didn't work at all on the netbsd arm, maybe we should
use the old C hack then, and turn it on or off with a configure option?

        - Godmar

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