On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:06:36AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:29:44PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > Simply adding "./libpwdgrp/libpwdgrp.a ./libbb/libbb.a" (libpwdgrp.a needs > > stuff from libbb.a, too) to the end of the command line linking busybox fixes > > the problem, but there must surely be a more elegant way? > > OK, I think I found it. :-) From "info ld": > > `-( ARCHIVES -)' > `--start-group ARCHIVES --end-group' > The ARCHIVES should be a list of archive files. They may be > either explicit file names, or `-l' options. > > The specified archives are searched repeatedly until no new > undefined references are created. Normally, an archive is > searched only once in the order that it is specified on the > command line. If a symbol in that archive is needed to resolve an > undefined symbol referred to by an object in an archive that > appears later on the command line, the linker would not be able to > resolve that reference. By grouping the archives, they all be > searched repeatedly until all possible references are resolved. > > Using this option has a significant performance cost. It is best > to use it only when there are unavoidable circular references > between two or more archives. > > So, what we want is probably something along the lines of > > gcc -s -o busybox -Wl,--start-group (insert all .a files here) \ > -Wl,--end-group > > and the NSS problems should go away.
Will the proposal get upstream? > > /* Steinar */ Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
