ld "FAIL: bootstrap with --static" --> recent Glibc's

[Greg Schafer]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:11:30AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Can you tell on which platform you see this problem? If it is not
> Linux/ia64, --static may not work at all since the current static
> dl_iterate_phdr is a dummy on none-ia64 Linux platforms.

i686-pc-linux-gnu

You're right. --static appears not to work at all. A static link using gcc
works because it is now using the --start-group --end-group stuff in the
specs file.

Greg