Re: shared libraries and libc6

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Ralf Baechle <ralf@tbird.cobaltmicro.com> writes:

> 
> On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 10:01:39PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> > J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk (James Troup) writes:
> > 
> 
> Never use ld directly.  GCC knows about certain system dependencies and
> how to handle them.  Instead do something like
> 
>   gcc -shared -o libsocks.so.4.3 -Wl,-soname,libsocks.so.4 -Wl,--whole-archive \
>   libsocks.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -lc
> 
> Note the -lc statement at the end, not the beginning.  I suspect that's what
> is blowing up your linker.  Depending of the library making the DSO use
> DT_SYMBOLIC might also be a good idea.  Also note that the ld of binutils 2.7
> will blow up when you link against lc.  It will pull in the entire static
> libc and produce a bad DSO.
> 

libsocks.so still depends on libc5:

> ldd /usr/lib/libsocks.so
>        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5
>        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
>        ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2

I don't know why.

I have the following versions installed:
	binutils 2.8.1-2
	libc5 5.4.33-3
	libc6 2.0.5c-0.1
	libc6-dev 2.0.5c-0.1

Also libc6 depends on libc5:

> ldd /lib/libc.so.6
>        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5
>        ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2

What is the problem?

Christoph

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