[Bug ld/24815] ld fails to find symbols from DT_NEEDED entries

[ismael at linux dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24815

--- Comment #2 from Ismael Luceno <ismael at linux dot com> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #1)
> Hi Ismael,
> 
>   Have you tried linking with the "--allow-shlib-undefined" linker command
>   line option enabled ?
> 
>   By default the ld linker insists that undefined symbols in shared libraries
>   must be resolved by other libraries/objects present on the linker command
>   line.  (The gold linker does not default to this behaviour by the way).
>   The reason being that it forces builders to put all of the shared libraries
>   that their application needs on the command line.  Thus making it clear
>   to anyone examining the command line, or the build system, exactly which
>   shared libraries are needed by the application.

Hi Nick,

That seems to work fine. Now, the thing is that I don't see GCC calling ld with
that argument on the glibc-based system... yet it links the file correctly...

One fundamental difference though, is that the glibc system is using the lto
plugin.

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