On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:57:37PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Daniel, > I take it that this hack of removing the > "compat_symbol" lines from ctype/ctype-info.c > only exports these symbols for run-time > resolution but not for linking. If that is the > case, there really isn't pressing reason to > remove such a hack from glibc 2.3 until the > next major release. It's not like it will > continue to propagate the problem symbols into > new binaries.
Read Roland's message again. "It means that link-time references against those symbols will resolve happily in your libc.so binary, which is exactly what we don't want for these obsolete symbols." -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
