------- Additional Comments From apratt at us dot ibm dot com 2009-10-12 22:25 ------- Pretty common, based on the link in comment #7. The vast majority of those failures are due to unresolved symbols, and it's possible many (most? virtually all?) of them are due to programs expecting the old behavior: symbol resolution via indirect shared-library dependencies.
There appears to have been a specific design decision NOT to support indirect symbol resolution in gold. While this can seem "more correct" from one perspective, I think gold could end up like a new compiler that is so strictly standards-compliant it doesn't accept real-world, existing source code. Since the linker is a system-wide choice, a user or developer will be reluctant to install gold if there's a good chance downloaded source projects won't work with it. You could be creating the best linker nobody uses. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10238 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
