usage of the libdep plugin of LD

[Howard Chu]

Marco Frigerio via Binutils wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way of making sure that the libdep plugin of LD is used?

Not by default. You need to make sure ld is invoked with "-plugin .../libdep_plugin.so" yourself.
Easiest way might be a wrapper script.
> 
> I have a static .a library with the __.LIBDEP section, but linking it to an executable raises linking errors.
> 
> All the errors go away if I specify manually the same '-lXXX' which is written in __.LIBDEP, suggesting that the latter is ignored.
> 
> GNU Binutils v 2.38, gcc 11.3.0, on Ubuntu Linux.
> 
> I could not find anything in the man pages, and the LD docs (section 4) do not say anything about enabling/loading plugins.
> 
> I hope this is the right place for this kind of questions, my apologies otherwise.
> Thanks
>  - MF
> 


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