Re: Shared libraries and symbols
Hi Dominik,
> > /lib/libc.so.5.4.4: no symbols
>
> This is most certainly a bug!
Why? It works without a problem. I got this libc by using David's Debian
files with HJ's sources.
> Try debug a dynamically linked binary using gdb and you will see lots of
> messages about loading symbols from the shared libraries ...
circe:meskes 108) nm /lib/libc.so.5.4.4
/lib/libc.so.5.4.4: no symbols
circe:meskes 109) ./t
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
circe:meskes 110) gdb t core
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Core was generated by ./t'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5.4.4...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done.
#0 0x4006eeb4 in memmove ()
So where's the problem?
> I would prefer to keep the symbols in the libraries.
As for the static libraries they have to be kept but the for the shared
ones? Also I don't see any reason why debugging symbols are kept. I ran
`strip -g` on my libraries and saved about 500K (sorry don't know the
libraries that had the debugging symbols).
Michael
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