Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:24:23 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elf linker question. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981124112056.8419D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199811241907.LAA00624@vashon.polstra.com>
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I'm not sure that it isn't following too many links.. I had to add 100 libraries to our makefiles (usually the same ones) Even if we were only using 1 function in a library, it required all the rest of the libraries in that set, even if they were called from functions other than the one we were calling. I find it hard to believe that all out programs would have worked correctly if they were SO wrong! I will see if I can make a test case.. julian On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, John Polstra wrote: > 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 > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." > -- H. L. Mencken > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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