------- Additional Comments From aaronavay62 at aaronwl dot com 2005-03-01
06:06 -------
Nope. Ian Lance Taylor or DJ Delorie must approve the libiberty portions of
this patch, or someone must suggest (and implement) an alternate implementation.
I don't know why Ian Lance Taylor doesn't approve it, as he's the one who
wrote it.
It might be more appropriate to fix this in a direct manner by simply having
#ifdef sections for Windows in collect2.c, which isn't that bad because:
1) The changes are actually rather minimal, mostly slight tweaks and using spawn
rather than fork.
2) The file already has much worse OS-specific code in it.
The trouble is that a global maintainer may still be disinclined to approve a
patch such as this; in a perfect world, this isn't the right way to fix this
problem.
I beleive there is actually a third implementation by Zack Weinberg, but DJ
Delorie has specific problems with it. I beleive this implementation is used on
the csl-arm branch.
So, as I understand it, the situation is basically deadlocked until someone
suggests another way to fix this problem.
In the meantime, most of us who care about this issue have left the GCC process
behind and have been using one of these three fixes for years.
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14316
