[Bug gold/10238] Gold linker does not resolve symbols using indirect dependencies

[apratt at us dot ibm dot com]

------- Additional Comments From apratt at us dot ibm dot com  2009-10-12 22:25 
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Pretty common, based on the link in comment #7. The vast majority of those
failures are due to unresolved symbols, and it's possible many (most? virtually
all?) of them are due to programs expecting the old behavior: symbol resolution
via indirect shared-library dependencies. 

There appears to have been a specific design decision NOT to support indirect
symbol resolution in gold. While this can seem "more correct" from one
perspective, I think gold could end up like a new compiler that is so strictly
standards-compliant it doesn't accept real-world, existing source code. 

Since the linker is a system-wide choice, a user or developer will be reluctant
to install gold if there's a good chance downloaded source projects won't work
with it. You could be creating the best linker nobody uses.

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10238

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