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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1
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Dave Korn wrote:
> OK. Suits me.
While you're at it, I would override LIBINTL and LIBICONV with their
dynamic counterparts.
> The problem is the major difference between ELF DSOs and PE DLLS: DLLs have
> to be fully resolved at link-time, not load-time. So, when you're building
> libstdc++ all those internal references to operator new have to be resolved
> somewhere, and as the weakref is the only definition available that's where
> they get linked to. Permanently and forever.
>
> If they were instead resolved to some kind of thunk that could do a lookup
> at runtime for non-weak versions of the same symbol, we'd be golden. Well,
> we'd need to make sure the non-weak versions were all declspecced dllexport
> somehow, but that would do it for us.
FWIW, this doesn't just affect C++; linking XWin against a dynamic
libXfont has the same problem, causing the former not to work, and hence
requires a static link.
Yaakov
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