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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: imp@harmony.village.org, Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com
Subject: Re: /usr/src/UPDATING question
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>: If it's true that cc -aout is broken (.section in an a.out .o file? Hm.), how
>: can one rebuild things like XFree86 a.out libraries, when make world fails?
>
>What it means is that cc -aout has been broken since the conversion to
>egcs, and now it is supposedly working.

Known breakage includes:
* compiling with -g sometimes fails (sees to be a gas bug).
* the bug just found by Joe (compiling libgcc_r produces .gnu_linkonce...
  sections).

Bruce


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