3.3 configure static

Wed Jul 9 15:26:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Poupaert <erik.poupaert@skynet.be> writes:

Erik> It's only a temporary problem. One day 3.3 will replace 3.2.x on
Erik> most machines, and the problem will be gone.
Actually, moving to 3.3 won't be a panacea. At least, not for gcj.
The problem is that every time we change the library, we break binary
compatibility.
The fix is the "new ABI" work, in particular -findirect-dispatch.
I think this really will be a good solution to the problems, or at
least it will reduce them to manageable size.
Erik> It's just an issue of perception. The dlls the Windows
Erik> executable depends on, are on the machine anyway.
The usual Linux approach is to target a particular distribution and
release. Then things work well.
It's harder with gcj, since the distributions lag gcc by quite a bit,
and libgcj changes frequently. Usually you end up wanting the next
gcj release, or sometimes the cvs version.
Tom