On Saturday 09 November 2002 15:45, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 05:58, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be a few more entries in this list, like libmingwex, > > > libmingwthrd, libmsvcrt (maybe). I don't know if any of those > > > libraries have globals that could be erroneously exported but doesn't > > > it pay to be safe? > > > > libmingwex -- maybe. I dunno -- that's for Danny and/or Earnie to say. > > You really only need library-name based protection for static libs; > > symbols in import libs are protected from re-export by symbol-exclude > > lists (_nm_*,__imp__*, etc). libmsvcrt, libmingwthrd -- no (because > > they are implibs). > > A light just went on. We could use a "exclude system archive" flag - > dont' export symbols originating from libraries in /usr/local/lib/* or > /usr/lib/* ( and possibly the gcc lib dir as well - although I think > that is a spec thing, as it's gcc's decision to have the library given a > certain name). > g77 now tries to link against mingw runtime, as gcc -pg did previously. Even though I had un-installed mingw, the new installation re-installed it. -- Tim Prince
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