Bug#343607: mklibs: "Dynamic linker not found; aborting"

[Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net>]

Package: mklibs
Version: 0.1.19
Severity: important


$ mklibs -d . /lib/iptables/libipt_DNAT.so
E: Dynamic linker not found, aborting.

I have no idea what this error means.  I get it on quite a few other
libraries as well.  If I supply any value for --ldlib, then mklibs fails otherwise:

$ mklibs --ldlib ld-2.3.5.so -d . /lib/iptables/libipt_DNAT.so
I: Using ld-2.3.5.so as dynamic linker.
I: library reduction pass 1
12 symbols, 12 unresolved
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mklibs", line 442, in ?
    raise "No library provides non-weak " + symbol
No library provides non-weak realloc

$ mklibs --ldlib ld.so -d . /lib/iptables/libipt_DNAT.so
I: Using ld.so as dynamic linker.
I: library reduction pass 1
12 symbols, 12 unresolved
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mklibs", line 442, in ?
    raise "No library provides non-weak " + symbol
No library provides non-weak realloc

Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,
Andrew.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mklibs depends on:
ii  binutils             2.16.1cvs20051117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  gcc                  4:4.0.2-1           The GNU C compiler
ii  python2.4            2.4.2-2             An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages mklibs recommends:
pn  libc6-pic | libc6.1-pic       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information