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Re: Avoid use of libgcc_s and libgcc_eh when building glibc
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 August 2012 05:46:52 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > if I change the order of stub library and libgcc then it works fine
> > > may be it needs to be $(static-gnulib-arch) -lgcc
> > > $(static-gnulib-arch) but below patch worked for me.
> >
> > The issue you describe is supposed to be addressed by
> > ports/sysdeps/arm/static-stubs.c (see
> > <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2012-07/msg00013.html> for more
> > explanation) so you need to investigate why the symbols aren't being
> > resolved by that file for you.
>
> maybe Khem is using the gold linker which implies --as-needed which means an
> incorrect linking order could be the bug (as earlier items get discarded as
> unused) ?
Since static-stubs.c is linked in as a .o file, I wouldn't have expected
--as-needed to make any difference; --as-needed is about linking in shared
libraries, not .o or .a files.
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Joseph S. Myers
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