Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:58:32 -0400 From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> To: dholland@cs.toronto.edu (David Holland) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dholland@cs.toronto.edu, peter@netplex.com.au, jabley@clear.co.nz, freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig Message-ID: <98Sep24.165839edt.37930-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <98Sep20.194011edt.37911-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu> from "David Holland" at Sep 20, 98 07:40:08 pm
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> > > There's a linker option to use when building libraries that
> > > eliminates this problem. In my opinion, it should be the default, but
> > > it's not, because that's not how Solaris does it or some crap like
> > > that.
>
> I can't find in my mail archives the argument I remember having over
> this, and I also can't find an option that does this in GNU ld's
> documentation. Grr. (Not that the binutils documentation is probably
> up to date or anything.) I'm quite sure I remember being told it was
> possible, though.
>
> You can at least make sure that required other libraries get linked by
> adding them to the link line when building a shared library.
>
> I'm going to poke around and see what I can find.
All right, so I checked up on this, and discovered that either I was
wrong or whoever told me was misinformed; the option does not exist.
On the other hand, Richard Henderson told me he was about to be adding
it to the current binutils snapshots, so with any luck we'll see it
before too long.
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