On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:38:02PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <d...@des.no> writes: > > Jilles Tjoelker <jil...@stack.nl> writes: > > > Although this will work, I think it trades the quality of the binaries > > > for a cleaner build system. It is better to pass all libraries to ld(1) > > > even though a .so may have unresolved references: the NEEDED entry > > > serves as an additional protection against version mismatches and symbol > > > versioning (if you ever add it) requires ld(1) to have access to the .so > > > containing the definition so it knows the version name to store in the > > > output file. > > These are plugins. The names and prototypes of the functions they > > export were set in stone 15 years ago. > > Sorry, that was a bit unclear. What I was trying to say is that symbol > versioning is not and will never be an issue. Does plugin depend on the library which loaded it ? In other words, does it reference the symbols from the library ? If yes, then plugin _must_ have a dependency on the library recorded as DT_NEEDED.
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