Hello, On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Christian Aichinger wrote: > As Steve Langasek detailed in his d-d-a mail[1], unnecessary > dependencies cause lots of problems, as they make transitions > bigger then they need to be.
Sorry for the noise. I wrote earlier to Christian Aichinger (and submitted a report #389555 against g++) and got no response. On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, I wrote: >I have filed an ITA for "swish++" so the problems with that package land >in my lap! > >When looking through the makefiles and the libraries that are linked >there is no mention of the two offending libraries "libm" or >"libgcc". On the other hand I noticed (by giving CC="g++ -v") that it >was "g++" which was putting these libraries in its call to collect2. > >If instead of this I link with "gcc" and add a "-lstdc++" in order to >get it to link correctly then the extra "NEEDED"'s disappear. > >I suppose I could fix the problem this way, but is this not a bug with >"g++"? On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, I wrote: >Actually, I found the following thread: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-01/msg00229.html > >This seems to indicate that g++ always links in libm and >libgcc_*. > >This will mean that programs that use g++ to link will always create >a problem. Perhaps this should be solved by *not* using g++ to link. I have now created a version of the "swish++" package that does not use "g++" to link and uses "gcc" instead. My question is whether this is "The Way". If so it could be documented as a solution to at least some of the "problem" cases. Regards, Kapil. P.S. Please CC me I do not subscribe to this list. --
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