--whole-archive libc_nonshared.a in shared objects

Roland McGrath roland@frob.com
Thu Jun 14 14:44:00 GMT 2001


> Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> 
> > Why is all of libc_nonshared.a included with --whole-archive into every .so
> > linked?  Shouldn't it come after --no-whole-archive and link in only the
> > modules needed by that .so?
> 
> Yes, this should be changed.  Note that it's not causing any harm
> since the symbols are not exported.  Nevertheless...

But the undefined symbols are there, and possibly creating more version set
dependencies than there need to be.



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