Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:07:26 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> I would like to see DJGPP packages put libraries in the
> appropriate subdir of lib/gcc-lib by default.

lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/VERSION is not for any libraries, it is only for
libraries related to GCC itself.  So IMHO it would be wrong for other
packages to put anything there.

> Especially
> since gcc 3.0 will use an incompatible ABI (not sure if 2.97
> already does), it would be nice if libraries where put somewhere
> they'll only be picked up if they can be safely used (I wouldn't
> WANT libc.a to be picked up from $DJDIR/lib if running gcc 3, as
> it wouldn't link).

As Mark pointed out, the ABI is only different for C++ programs, not
for C programs.