From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoff Keating To: hjl@lucon.org Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, ian@zembu.com, nick@lucon.org Subject: Re: glibc 2.1 and gabi Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:47:00 -0000 Message-id: <200007202246.PAA15150@localhost.cygnus.com> References: <20000720114229.A6435@lucon.org> <200007202022.NAA15027@localhost.cygnus.com> <20000720135729.B6994@lucon.org> X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00339.html > Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:57:29 -0700 > From: "H . J . Lu" > Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, > ian@zembu.com, nick@lucon.org > glibc 2.2 is ok. The problem is the existing glibc 2.1 systems. The > binaries created by the new linker under glibc 2.1 may not run due > to those new dtags. I just sent in a new patch which turns off the > new dtag by default so that the linker can create the working binaries > under glibc 2.1. OK. That makes sense. Ideally, you would want to only add the new tags when they make a difference to how the executable should be treated. I don't know what the new tags do so I don't know if this is possible. -- - Geoffrey Keating