Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@××××××.ru>
To: "gentoo-alt@l.g.o" <gentoo-alt@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] glibc with prefix
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:12:02
Message-Id: 959661360926718@web8f.yandex.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] glibc with prefix by Michael Haubenwallner
1 14.02.2013, 12:10, "Michael Haubenwallner" <haubi@g.o>:
2 > Another reason to avoid glibc on proprietary Unix systems is supportability:
3 > Unix vendors unlikely would support such setups, so even when there's a bug
4 > in their kernel, we'd be on our own. Same basically stands for binutils.
5 >
6 > Example: Currently I'm working with AIX kernel developers to nail down why a
7 > (quite large) C++ executable built with (my old stable snapshot of) Prefix'
8 > gcc-4.2.4 does not start on aix7.1 - it does not even enter main(), while it
9 > works on aix5.3 and aix6.1. They tried to close the report when they heard of
10 > gcc, but continued when they were told that gcc just generates assembler code
11 > subsequently processed by their native binutils.
12
13 Out of curiosity: how does glibc prevent you from using native binutils?
14
15 --
16 Regards,
17 Konstantin

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Re: [gentoo-alt] glibc with prefix Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>