On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> Huh, hears an interesting thing. If I use main as the function I'm
> checking then it works. But libapt-pkg.so.2.7 doesn't have a main
> function.
Yes, because the program that gets compiled is
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
main();
}
And this program has no unresolved symbols after linking. The test works
fine as long as your linker emits an error if it cannot find an unneeded
library, which isn't true on all platforms. :-(
Simon
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