On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:39:57PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > It seems that the linker thinks that any shared object that references > the magic _gp_disp symbol actually provides it. Since all mips objects > reference _gp_disp, ld thinks that all shared objects are required to > resolve all the other _gp_disp references. This causes all shared > objects specified with --as-needed to be deemed needed and get a > DT_NEEDED entry. > > The linker automagically resolves _gp_disp so this symbol should not > cause a shared library to be needed. > > I hope that makes at least a little sense. > > I suspect that the problem is mips specific as _gp_disp handling is mips > specific.
Yes, you're probably right. I thought this sounded familiar, but couldn't find any references. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
