From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shared libobjc in gcc 3.0.2 doesn't work with "make check"
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:46:00 -0000
Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011017174410.05fd8810@mail.lauterbach.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00968.html

At 17:18 17.10.2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:58:29AM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
> > At 08:46 17.10.2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > >The ObjC testcase doesn't work at all unless there is libgcc_s.so.1
> > >somewhere available for dynamic linker. It is because the shared
> > >libobjc has libgcc_s.so.1 in DT_NEEDED and the GNU linker treats
> > >it just like dynamic linker. That means ld won't search -L for
> > >libgcc_s.so.1. If there is no libgcc_s.so.1 for dynamic linker,
> > >which happens when you never install gcc 3.x before, all ObjC tests
> > >will fail. For ObjC test, you should use LD_LIBRARY_PATH Or -rpath
> > >for the final link.
> >
> > AFAIR this was fixed in the mainline by:
> >
> > 2001-06-16  Franz Sirl  <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
> >
> >          * gccspec.c (lang_specific_driver): If compiling ObjC, add
> >          -shared-libgcc when necessary.
> >          * Makefile.in (gccspec.o): Compile with DRIVER_DEFINES.
> >
> > Hmm, totally forgot about that, it should have gone into 3.0.1 already...
>
>Why not backport it to 3.0.x?

As I said I forgot about it and now it's too late for 3.0.2. I'll put it in 
my queue for 3.0.3.

Franz.