We get errors like:

configure:1950: g++ conftest.cc >&5
/nix/store/7w2acjgalb0cm7b3bg8yswza4l7iil9y-binutils-2.18/bin/ld: a.out: hidden symbol `fstat in /nix/store/dhxzp18s0xnfhm7661xfrpbp38ph9fik-glibc-2.7/lib/libc_nonshared.a(fstat.oS) is re
ferenced by DSO
/nix/store/7w2acjgalb0cm7b3bg8yswza4l7iil9y-binutils-2.18/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Of course, the diminishing number of packages needing gcc 3.4 makes this ever less of a problem.

Submitted on 25 June 2008 at 16:33