On May 29, 2000, Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ossama Othman wrote:
>> Now that I think about it, libtool is only reproducing what the C++
>> compiler would normally do internally, so why would libtool be wrong?
>> Specifically, libtool disables the internal library link commands that
>> the C++ compiler would normally perform automatically, and simply does
>> the linking itself. Why does it work for the C++ compiler?
> It doesn't. This is a bug in gcc at least til 2.8.1 (no 2.95 here at
> the moment):
Which means libtool should consider whether to add libstdc++ (or any
other implicitly-linked libraries, for that matter) just like it
considers any other libraries: on platforms that won't allow non-PIC
code into shared libraries, we'd have to drop it.
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