Re: A config patch

[Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>]

  In message <m0x3iRL-0004efC@ocean.lucon.org>you write:
  > > so that [ -z "$PICFLAG" ] succeeds.  But you would need to use
  > > libtool to think about getting OSF/1 shared libraries built --
  > > gcc -shared certainly doesn't work.
  > > 
  > 
  > That may be true. But at least you can make libstdc++.so for
  > alpha/ELF.
The thing you need to explain is _why_ this particular patch enables
you to build a shared libstdc++.  I don't have the time to grope
around half a dozen makefiles and configure fragments to figure this
out.  You've obviously done so, so please save everyone some time
by providing this information.

And you also need to tell us why/how this library is correct if
"gcc -shared" doesn't do the right thing on the alpha target.
(IMHO) Building a broken libstdc++.so is worse than not building
it at all.

Jeff