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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, David E. O'Brien wrote:

> obrien      2002/06/21 12:05:20 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb Makefile
>   Log:
>   We need to link with libiberty.a before libreadline.so.  Both supply
>   xmalloc() and xrealloc() and the mixed usage of xmalloc in some .c's from
>   libiberty.a and other .c's from libreadline.so produces an unusable binary
>   on the Alpha.

Not to mention that it results in a nonexistent binary on i386's when
the error of mixing x*alloc()s is detected by linking statically.  This
has been breaking worlds for about 5 months.

Bruce


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