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From: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs
Date: 25 Apr 1997 18:55:51 GMT
Organization: UCLA CS Dept
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
: gpalmer@webspan.net (Gary Palmer) wrote:

: > It's probably a bug in that package compile ... it shouldn't have
: > needed libgcc.so.261.0 in the first place.

: The problem is that emacs thinks he must use its own `ld' command in
: the Makefile, not going via cc(1).  cc carefully avoids to link libgcc
: dynamically, but emacs breaks this.

Once again, the FSF 'We know how to do things much better than anyone
else' bites us all in the *ss (modulo the high utility of Emacs,
of course.)

Emacs ... broken? How quaint. :-)


-scottm
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Scott Michel                           Graduate School:
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"AND STOP CALLING ME Scooter!" :-)