Undefined reference to init/fini array symbols

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Kristian,

> Apologies for the crosspost to both Glibc & Binutils lists.  I am
> currently porting Glibc 2.3.2 to Syllable (See sig) and have the
> codebase upto the stage where it attempts to link libc_pic.a  This
> currently fails with the following errors:
> ..
> /home/user/glibc-configure/libc_pic.os(.text+0x596): In function 
> `__libc_csu_init':
> /home/user/glibc-2.3.2/csu/elf-init.c:54: undefined reference to 
> `__preinit_array_end'

> Of course I would expect these symbols to be provided by the linker
> itself (GNU ld 2.14), and indeed the linker script includes PROVIDES
> for all these  symbols.

>   PROVIDE (__preinit_array_end = .);

The most likely case is that the linker is being performed with a
linker script specified on the command line, rather than using the
default, builtin script.  What *exactly* is the command line that is
being used to invoke the linker ?

It would also really help if you were able to produce a small,
self-contained test case that demonstrates the problem.

Cheers
        Nick