"all the world's not Linux"

[Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>]

> > In which case, simply recommend that EGCS users upgrade to Glibc 2.1,
> > the weak references can stay, and executables avoid pointless bloat.
> 
> I know I'm a little bit late on this discussion, but I would really like
> to point out to most of the list members one of Henry Spencer's "Ten
> Commandments for C Programmers" :

The discussion was about how to fix some problems with glibc version
clashes, and it's not relevant to folks on other platforms.  Remain calm.

However:

> I other words:  ALL THE WORLD IS NOT LINUX!
> 
> FreeBSD has moved to using EGCS 1.1.2 as the base compiler.

We have lots of Linux folks actively cooperating with development.  We
also have Marc Espie from OpenBSD working to get patches contributed
and merged.  But the FreeBSD folks have not been communicating with the
egcs developers, and haven't contributed their changes.  If this persists,
then you can expect that egcs/gcc will break things on FreeBSD regularly,
simply because there's no communication channel open and the developers
won't know.

If you want good FreeBSD support, you need to help.

> So Linux-centric hacks hacks that bring havoc into the world are NOT
> appropriate.

No such hack has been proposed (well, OK, HJ keeps proposing
Linux-specific hacks, but Jeff always then demands a more general
solution).