Re: RFC: Support for FreeBSD/amd64

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-10-27 21:08, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>From: Frank Schmitt <address@hidden>
>Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:50:05 +0200
>> 
>> Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > To bootstrap Emacs on my FreeBSD/amd64 snapshot I had to use the
>> > following patch -- also available at:
>> > http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/emacs/22/freebsd-amd64.diff
>> [...]
>> > +#define LIB_STANDARD -lgcc -lc -lgcc /usr/lib/crtn.o
>> [...]
>> 
>> Theres -lgcc two times in above line.
> 
> Yes, and they both are almost certainly needed.  The reason is that
> some functions in libgcc.a call functions from libc.a, and some libc.a
> functions need functions from libgcc.a.  Since most versions of ld are
> one-pass linkers, you need to mention -lgcc twice, or else risk
> getting unresolved externals.

Thanks for the very informative followup.  I guess this means it's ok to
commit the original diff then ;-)