Please remove paths from libc.so.
Rich Felker
dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Dec 31 00:17:05 UTC 2006
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:57:51PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 December 2006 4:34 pm, Rich Felker wrote:
> >
> >>>i'm not going to waste time on a non-sysroot vs sysroot debate since
> >
> > sysroot
> >
> >>>is hands down superior
> >>
> >>I must strongly disagree. Simplicity is the ultimate virtue and a
> >>solution that requires nothing except removing broken code is always
> >>inherently better than a solution which involves adding a layer of
> >>wrapping.
> >
> >
> > Both solutions involve a wrapper. The question is, do you trust a wrapper
> > that exists outside of gcc and overrides all of gcc's broken path logic
> > entirely, or do you trust gcc to get it right on the fifth attempt without
> > actually removing any of the debris from the previous four?
> >
>
> Your argument seems to be based on the axiom that that GCC in general is
> a stupid, broken, helpless mess.
I would safely assert that anyone questioning the correctness of this
axiom is positively insane. Need I provide a reference for the classic
"Just because it's valid GNU C doesn't mean gcc is supposed to compile
it..." quote (slightly paraphrased)?
Rich
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