libc-19980524: unnecessary startup file dependencies on Hurd

Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Wed May 27 02:54:00 GMT 1998


Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

|> 
|> > The ldd script directly executes a library that includes .interp, and it
|> > works better than without.
|> 
|> These particular libraries cannot be (meaningfully) executable because
|> their entry point functions would need to use libc code.

ldd does not depend on any valid entry point.  It's the dynamic linker
that does all the work.

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