[PATCH] elf: Don't load archive element after dynamic definition

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:28:42AM -0700, H.J. Lu via Binutils wrote:
> Don't load the archive element after seeing a definition in a shared
> object.
> 
> bfd/
> 
> 	PR ld/26530
> 	* elflink.c (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Also preserve the
> 	dynamic_def bit for --as-needed.
> 	(elf_link_add_archive_symbols): Don't load the archive element
> 	after seeing a definition in a shared object.

This seems over complicated to me.  Why don't we just load the
as-needed shared library on the first pass?

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM