This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: [PATCH] BZ #5784: Build libpthread.a with ld -r
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:12:07AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> This patch builds libpthread.a with ld -r. Tested on x86-64 and ia32.
>> OK to install?
>
> Can you explain the motivation for wanting to force the whole
> libpthread.a to get linked into any static multithreaded program? This
> sounds like gratuitous bloating unless there's a real problem that
> arises when only the explicitly used parts are linked in, and in that
> case I would suspect there's just some misuse of weak symbols or weak
> references breaking things...
the BZ # in the subject:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5784
which points you to the GCC PR:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33960#c9
which contains some details as to what is failing
-mike