unexpected behaviour of ld with --start-group

[Bryan White]

A) I'm having problems in trying to link a program. As part of my
experimentation I want to define a start/end group, but I am unable to
include the libraries that I want.

I have simplified the problem down to the following:

[15:00:25 address@hidden sdk]$ld -o deleteme -lc
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address  //
ignore this - it's expected
[15:00:58 address@hidden sdk]$ld -o deleteme --start-group -lc --end-group
ld: cannot find -lc                         // this is the problem
[15:01:07 address@hidden sdk]$ld -v
GNU ld version 2.10.90 (with BFD 2.10.0.18) // confirm which ld i'm using
[15:01:10 address@hidden sdk]$whereis libc
libc: /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libc.so      // confirm that they exist
[15:01:17 address@hidden sdk]$

B) I also have a problem with libc.
Newsgroups gnu.glibc.bug (and similar) seem dormant to the point of
extinction, and a posting to address@hidden has been automatically
acknowledged as libc/2092, but nothing else has happened (AFAIK). Is there
another method I should be using for reporting libc problems?

Regards

Bryan White
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