behavior of weak definitions in archive libraries

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On 11 Nov 2003 17:33:36 -0500, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> said:

  Ian> This behaviour is intentional for ELF.  That is how ELF linkers work.

  >> From http://www.caldera.com/developers/gabi/1998-04-29/ch4.symtab.html

  Ian> When the link editor searches archive libraries [see ``Archive
  Ian> File'' in Chapter 7], it extracts archive members that contain
  Ian> definitions of undefined global symbols.  The member's definition
  Ian> may be either a global or a weak symbol.  The link editor does not
  Ian> extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols.
  Ian> Unresolved weak symbols have a zero value.

I guess I can see why doing it the other way would come with its own
set of problems.  Nasty...

OK, so the bug must be in the library then.

Thanks for quick response!

	--david