cvs commit: src/lib/libc/quad Symbol.map

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Thu, 31 May 2007 13:07:37 +0000 (UTC)
Daniel Eischen <deischen at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:

> deischen    2007-05-31 13:07:37 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     lib/libc/quad        Symbol.map 
>   Log:
>   Export quad symbols.  They were previously commented out.  These symbols
>   really shouldn't be exported since they should be pulled from libgcc, but
>   the build of some applications is broken and they expect to see them in
>   libc.  glibc exports these symbols, although Solaris doesn't appear to,
>   so export them for compatibility's sake.
>   
>   After discussion with:  kan
>   

I beleive we should better fix all ports that do improper linking, than
live with a compatibility hack. I have checked some local ports, and
there seems to be not very much of them. Furthermore, tcl was
already fixed. Kris, can you provide a list of broken ports without this
modification.

If needed, we can write a letter to ports@ to ask all maintainers to
check/fix their ports in respect of correct linking. After this will be
done, the patch can be backouted.

-- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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