Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:40:15 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Message-ID: <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19980526201549.35268@follo.net> References: <356a9f0a.251653824@mail.cetlink.net> <199805261659.LAA19904@dyson.iquest.net> <19980526194334.44185@follo.net> <199805261750.LAA07058@mt.sri.com> <19980526201549.35268@follo.net>
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Eivind Eklund writes: > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:50:53AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > I really don't think that we would want to also get into compiler > > > > support issues. Tool support issues are complex enough. I can imagine > > > > that egcs (could) be stable enough for our c++ compiler, but am much > > > > less confident of it being our default c compiler. > > > > > > Personally I'd prefer to use TenDRA if at all possible. It seems to > > > be much better than GCC when you look at error control etc. > > > > Can it do shlibs? > > I don't know - is there much special it would have to do? Generating PIC code is a big prerequisite, so the assembly it generates must be capable of being relocated. I'm not 100% sure if this is a function of the compiler, but given that GCC1 couldn't do it and GCC2 could, I suspect it's a function of the compiler. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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