gnu ld 2.12 segmentation fault on Solaris 2.8 -- followup

[Andrew Koenig]

It turns out that the python.o is not necessary:  merely trying to
link the libtcl8.3.so file will cause a core dump:

$ ld libtcl8.3.so
Segmentation Fault - core dumped
$ gdb /usr/gnu/bin/ld core
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Core was generated by `ld libtcl8.3.so'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/lib/libc_psr.so.1
Reading symbols from 
/usr/lib/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1/en_US.ISO8859-1.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1/en_US.ISO8859-1.so.2
#0  _bfd_elf_section_from_bfd_section (abfd=0xe74f0, asect=0x0) at elf.c:4064
4064    elf.c: No such file or directory.
        in elf.c
(gdb) bt
#0  _bfd_elf_section_from_bfd_section (abfd=0xe74f0, asect=0x0) at elf.c:4064
#1  0x000423e0 in elf_link_add_object_symbols (abfd=0xe74f0, info=0xd43b8)
    at elflink.h:1452
#2  0x0001896c in load_symbols (entry=0xd6328, place=0xffbef1e8) at 
ldlang.c:1570
#3  0x000193d4 in open_input_bfds (s=0xd6328, force=false) at ldlang.c:1968
#4  0x0001c45c in lang_process () at ldlang.c:4102
#5  0x0001ef70 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffbef35c) at ldmain.c:402