Re: gcc 2.8.1 and the -R option

[Marc Espie <Marc.Espie@liafa.jussieu.fr>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 11:48:54AM -0800, Marco S Hyman wrote:
> The new gcc doesn't allow the -R flag to be passed to the linker.
> I didn't keep a copy of the old gcc so I don't know if this is a new
> behaviour or not.  If this was not intentional I believe the fix
> to be (have not tested it yet):
This is probably intentional, as the corresponding
gcc/config/netbsd.h
DOES have that -R.

> Comments?

I surmise this must have something to do with security. The correct way
to install library would be to have them in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib,
checked by ldconfig ? (wild guess... no idea why this would be).

On a related note, there is an ongoing discussion in the egcs mailing-list
concerning the use of -R with respect to libstdc++.so.

The problem is, if you install libstdc++.so as your average user, it
won't be in a directory reachable from ldconfig, so you will have to
tweak LD_LIBRARY_PATH gcc-lib/specs to obtain the nice result.
The other nasty problem I see is related to version numbers:
libstdc++ version number only tracks changes to version, whereas
g++' name mangling scheme has changed between gcc 2.8.1 and egcs (of
necessity---egcs needs to support much more intricate template types).
This means that there are two incompatible libraries with the same name
and version running wild in the system... I had better watch what I'm
doing :-(
-- 
	Marc Espie