Re: tlug: ccp

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> I wouldn't run a libc5-built egcs on a glibc system.  That aside, what
> about if it's the other way around?  That would definitely break.

I have run such an egcs, but not by choice.

If one can't figure out how forward- and backward-compatibility works, one
probably shouldn't be doing things this way in the first place.

> Considering that egcs doesn't need a working compiler to build itself

In what universe?  Bullshit.  One cannot conjure from thin air.

> ld-linux.so.1 is also included for compatibility on both TL and RH, to the
> best of my knowledge.

So?  An egcs built on a libc5 box will use ld-linux.so.1 as its ld.so.
This is bad when the dev environment is glibc2.  A binary linked against
libc.so.6 and ld-linux.so.1 will segfault.  That is why the spec file
needs to be changed before one can use a compiler built under such
circumstances -- not for runtime, but for linking.  You missed the point.

-- Chris

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