On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:59:33PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 21:21 -0400 1999-05-03, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >If you haven't upgraded in a while, I very strongly recommend that you > >run: > > > >$ apt-get install libc6 > > > >Not a dselect upgrade doing multiple things at once - JUST libc6. > >Somewhere in the past few versions we changed our minds about > >__register_frame_info again, and when that happened, libraries began > >depending on the new libc6. I'd really like to know if anyone knows > >when/how this happened. It's certainly a problem from 2.1-3 to > >2.1.1-0pre1.3. > > It's egcs, this bit sparc too. egcs 1.1.2 has a weak symbols in > libgcc patch, this makes __*register_frame_info weak symbols. > Debian/sparc has backed this out of their egcs. > > Jeff Law has suggested on the egcs list that he believes that patch > was a bad idea, even going so far as to consider a 1.1.3 release just > to back it out.
I agree. I would really like to have this fixed if possible. Perhaps a new egcs with that sparc patch applied. Thoughts? Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
