On Fri 11 Dec, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Timothy Coltman wrote:
> 
> : Having said that, I think I might wait until egcs is a part of the
> : source tree for NetBSD and some kind soul produces a egcs-included
> : snapshot and shared libs work again.
> 
> Shouldn't be too much longer.

For which part? Working shared libs or egcs being included? Or both, kindly
included in a snapshot?

> 
> : Can someone tell me if egcs supports shared code yet? When I compile stuff
> : that has the -fPIC or -fpic flags, it complains that the compiler doesn't
> : support this flag (ie -fpic/-fPIC). Are these the flags compilers use to produce
> : shared/dynamic code or am I getting confused with something else? (This was
> : with version 1.03 - I'm going to try and compile 1.1.1 soon - does 1.1.1 include
> : all the patches that Richard and Charles posted to this list?)
> 
> egcs, 1.anything, or even trunk, has peculiarities `out of the box'.  I
> suggest `don't use it' until I roll patches back to Cygnus, some of which
> were supposed to be included in 1.1.1.  :/
> 

Will these patches be included in the NetBSD snapshot egcs or in a release of
egcs? What are these peculiarities, exactly?

Thanks for your reply,

Cheers,
tim

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