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Date:      Tue, 24 Nov 1998 08:10:35 +1100 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Elf linker question.
Message-ID:  <199811232110.IAA05834@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981123123834.7263H-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Nov 23, 98 12:41:25 pm"

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> I'm doing some work in a 3.0 system using the elf linker.
> It seems that the new linker is insisting on me including libraries
> that I never needed before.. In other words, I thin it's trying to resolve
> symbols in functions I'm not using. Does anyone have comments on this?

I guess you are linking against shared libraries? A static link should
work as previously.

> The old aout linker didn't need me to specify libraries that were not in
> my call-graph. THe new one seems to need them.

We now have standard binutils behaviour, like it or not.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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