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Re: [PATCH] elf: Always set l in _dl_init_paths (Bug 23462).

* Carlos O'Donell:

> This does not turn out to be true. And it makes sense when I think
> about it more thoroughly.
>
> The static executable, lacking a .dynamic section, does not fill in
> any of the link maps's l_info data, in fact it's all just a list of
> NULLs because there was no data to load.

Statically linked executables can have dynamic segments.  However, there
seems to be a bug in BFD ld because it ignores -rpath for them.

> You would have to assemble a static binary with a .dynamic section
> and the static linker doesn't want to do that.

You can use -static-pie on some targets, then there is a dynamic
segment, and BFD ld adds DT_RPATH to it.

Thanks,
Florian
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