On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 20:51, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>
> This completes the fixes to put all experimental symbols into
> libstdc++exp.a.
>
> On trunk the libstdc++_libbacktrace.a was removed completely and its
> contents aded to libstdc++exp.a instead. We don't want to do that on the
> gcc-13 branch because it will break makefiles using it. We can add the
> contents to libstdc++exp.a and then install a symlink so that
> -lstdc++_libbacktrace still works, but links to libstdc++exp.a instead.

It looks like simply duplicating all the libstdc___libbacktrace_FOO
variables in libbacktrace/Makefile.am does work (see attached patch),
so that we get an installed libstdc++_libbacktrace.a and a
not-installed libstdc++_libbacktraceconvenience.a which gets included
into the installed libstdc++exp.a

So if that's preferable to making the installed
libstdc++_libbacktrace.a a symlink, we can do that.

I still kinda like the symlink approach, because it reduces the size
on disk, and the same approach could be used to get rid of
libstdc++fs.a without breaking makefiles using -lstdc++fs