Hi Tobias, > Rainer Orth wrote: >> how should we proceed with this patch now, given the questions above? >> Install as is, although it doesn't seem really beneficial, or drop it? > > I would install it. Actually, did you get a libquadmath dependence on > Solaris or not?
I do, both with Solaris ld and gld 2.23.1. > On Linux - or to be more precise: with binutils newer than 2013-03-18 - > you also shouldn't get a dependence. See > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12549 for details. No wonder I do see the dependency even on Linux: I usually only test with binutils releases, and that patch will only show up in gld 2.24. Ok, I'll go ahead and install the patch since it certainly does no harm. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
