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changeset 42789:b016f6f9056c
Document problems with linking libraries compiled with GCC.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:21:14 +0000 |
| parents | ec9199e7ac0f |
| children | 987fa2a733e0 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Jan 16 13:46:59 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Jan 16 18:21:14 2002 +0000 @@ -27,6 +27,19 @@ Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles. +* Building Emacs with a system compiler fails during link stage. + +This can happen if some of the libraries linked into Emacs were built +with GCC, but Emacs itself is being linked with a compiler other than +GCC. Object files compiled with GCC might need some helper functions +from libgcc.a, the library which comes with GCC, but the system +compiler does not instruct the linker to search libgcc.a during the +link stage. + +A solution is to link with GCC, like this: + + make CC=gcc + * Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail. Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin