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Date:      Mon, 27 May 1996 11:33:28 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnu/655 
Message-ID:  <199605271833.LAA03693@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 May 1996 16:52:04 PDT." <199605262352.QAA14508@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> Synopsis: ld -r of shared objects worked in 1.1.5, not in 2.0.5
> 
> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->jdp
> Responsible-Changed-By: scrappy
> Responsible-Changed-When: Sun May 26 16:51:40 PDT 1996
> Responsible-Changed-Why: 
> last changes to ld by jdp...

As far as I can tell, this bug report rewrites history.

I wasn't involved in the project even when 2.0.5 was released, but
looking at the RCS logs and at various versions of the sources, I am
convinced that "ld -r" of shared objects was _never_ supported, in any
version.

The error message saying that it's not supported first appeared in
revision 1.4 of ld.c, on 03 November 1993, and it's been there ever
since.  It also looks like that was the first version of the linker to
support shared libraries.

I don't have any plans to fix this problem.  It won't hurt my feelings
if somebody else wants to make a stab at it. :-)

-- John



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