Ignoring some undefined symbols

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Mathieu Ropert <sagara@puchiko.net> writes:

> I'm currently porting an application from Tru64 / OSF to Linux and I'm
> looking for a feature I had with Tru64's LD that I can't find in
> binutils.
> When building a shared library, I want LD to report undefined symbols
> in object files BUT I need to ignore some undefined symbols.
> On Tru64, there's the -expect_unresolved flag that takes a symbol name
> pattern (like shell filename expansion) and ignore them when reporting
> undefined symbols.
> With binutils' LD, I use the --no-undefined to have undefined symbols
> checked when building shared libraries, but I still need to make it
> ignore some undefined references (full names or patterns, both can
> do).
> Is there any way to do it?

As far as I know the GNU linker has no such feature.  Sorry.

Ian