Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:07:31 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: julian@whistle.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elf linker question. Message-ID: <199811241907.LAA00624@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981123123834.7263H-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.981123123834.7263H-100000@current1.whistle.com>,
Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> 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?
>
> 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.
I really think it was a bug that our old linker didn't complain
about those undefined symbols. I tried some tests long ago on some
similar systems -- SVR4 and (maybe -- I can't remember) SunOS. They
complained like our new linker does.
John
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