Re: other/3796: IA64 undefined references in shared libraries linked with -Bsymbolic

[wilson@gcc.gnu.org]

Synopsis: IA64 undefined references in shared libraries linked with -Bsymbolic

Responsible-Changed-From-To: unassigned->wilson
Responsible-Changed-By: wilson
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Nov 20 22:53:16 2001
Responsible-Changed-Why:
    IA-64 maintainer
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: wilson
State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 20 22:53:16 2001
State-Changed-Why:
    For IA-64, gcc 3.0.1 is not ABI compatible with gcc 3.0.
    Likewise, gcc 3.0.2 is not ABI compatible with 3.0.1.
    IA-64 gcc development was not finished before the gcc3
    release process started, so our choice was to tell everybody
    not to use GCC3, or to try to finish it during the gcc3
    release process and warn people about ABI compatibilities.
    We choose the latter approach.
    
    I don't have a copy of the SuSE OS release, but it sounds
    like it was built using gcc-3.0.  Thus gcc-3.0.1 is not
    supported on this system.  It will work most of the time,
    but it will fail in some cases when trying to link gcc-3.0
    compiled shared libraries into gcc-3.0.1 compiled
    applications.  That is exactly the problem you ran into.
    The only good solution is to recompile all system libraries
    (e.g. glibc) with gcc-3.0.1, but that will be difficult and
    time consuming.  It is probably better to not use 3.0.1,
    or wait for a new OS release built using a later compiler.

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