Re: Don't discard -lgcc from `-lgcc -c -lgcc'

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Tuesday 10 April 2001  9:27 pm, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2001, "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Monday 09 April 2001  7:27 pm, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> Unfortunately, it doesn't catch the common case of the
> >> libraries implicitly linked in by GCC, which affects our ability to
> >> create correct C++ shared libraries with g++.
> >
> > I don't see how removing some duplicated libraries will change the
> > ability of libtool to link g++ libraries.  Sure we have some
> > problems with implicit libs when linking using ld, but I thought
> > this problem was addressed by MLB?
>
> That's precisely the problem: in MLB, we explicitly link in the
> libraries gcc would have implicitly linked in, but, without my patch,
> duplicate library removal would turn `-lgcc -lc -lgcc' into `-lc
> -lgcc'.  This is wrong in case libgcc overrides symbols from libc.
> This was how the problem was first noticed.

I see.  Okay.  How about waiting until after the new duplicate removal phase 
before ading implicit libs to the link line?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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