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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Problems related to disappearnce of libgcc_r
To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 02:13:42 +0200 (EET)
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG (Maxim Sobolev)
In-Reply-To: <200101092204.f09M45G25580@mobile.wemm.org> from "Peter Wemm" at Jan 09, 2001 02:04:05 PM
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> 
> "David O'Brien" wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:53:29PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > I wonder if anyone noticed that disappearance of libgcc_r will cause lot of
> > > ports to break. Therefore it would be nice if some form of compatibility sh
>     im
> > > is provided, for example symlink from /usr/lib/libgcc.a to /usr/lib/libgcc_
>     r.a
> > > automatically created by installworld would do the trick nicely.
> > 
> > I really don't want to propogate libgcc_r.  Lets just fix the ports that
> > break.  They can be seen at http://bento.freebsd.org/
> 
> We need to be a little careful for ports that are supposed to work on
> RELENG_4 and -CURRENT.

Yes, it's why I think we need this compatability hack. Bloating all 20+ ports
that have to use gcc_r on 4-STABLE and downwards with OSVERSION check is PITA.

-Maxim


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