Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

[Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>]

[Sune Vuorela]
> the major difference is:
> your app uses both libfoo and libbar. libbar uses libfoo.  with ld, it
> is sufficient to do -lbar, and with gold you need -lfoo -lbar.
> in both cases, your app will have NEEDED entries for both libfoo and
> libbar.

If you want symbol versioning to work properly (assuming libfoo has
versioned symbols), you need to specify -lfoo -lbar regardless.  Been
there, didn't do that, got the segfaults.
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Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/