This is a bug in binutils. I think it is fixed in version 2.8.1. Ralf is
more familiar with the problem.
_Tim
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while compiling redhat 5.0 rpms, I've found something very strange, when
> building shared libraries. Some of the built shared libs are very big and
> a nm on them shows, that the whole libc (I guess so) is included. Binaries
> inked against these library just dump core. The built line for these shared
> libs always ends with a -lc. Now I'm wondering wether this is a ld bug or
> just a user error. What's really weird is the following patch from one
> of the redhat rpms:
>
> --- termcap-2.0.8/Makefile.ewt Tue Jul 8 11:08:00 1997
> +++ termcap-2.0.8/Makefile Tue Jul 8 11:08:12 1997
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
>
> $(SHARED_LIB): $(OBJS)
> cd pic; \
> - $(CC) -shared -o ../$@ -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME_SHARED_LIB) $(OBJS)
> + $(CC) -shared -o ../$@ -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME_SHARED_LIB) $(OBJS) -lc
>
> pic:
> -if [ ! -d pic ]; then mkdir pic; fi
>
> So it looks like the ld for alpha and i386 don't include the whole libc
> when linked with the comand line above. Any hints ?
>
> Thomas.
>
> --
> See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux,
> you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)
> [Linus Torvalds in <4rikft$7g5@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI>]
>
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