Re: PATCH: Fix mips*-*-linux*

[H . J . Lu]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:57:57AM -0600, Robert Boehne wrote:
> Alexandre:
> 
> You have my approval to un-do my mistsake.  If I had understood
> exactly what this patch was doing then I would have rejected it myself.
> H.J. As I now understand it, your patch doesn't improve anything,
> it just breaks static linking (where you'd actually need the dependent
> archive).  When linking shared the archive is already pulled into the
> *.so, so it isn't actually dependent on the archive.
> 

Well, there is no libiberty.so. You wind up with always linking files
in libiberty.a when libtool is used, no matter they are needed or
not.


H.J.