Re: [roland@redhat.com: Re: More info on static binary/libnss* mystery]
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:57:37PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Daniel,
> I take it that this hack of removing the
> "compat_symbol" lines from ctype/ctype-info.c
> only exports these symbols for run-time
> resolution but not for linking. If that is the
> case, there really isn't pressing reason to
> remove such a hack from glibc 2.3 until the
> next major release. It's not like it will
> continue to propagate the problem symbols into
> new binaries.
Read Roland's message again.
"It means that link-time
references against those symbols will resolve happily in your libc.so
binary, which is exactly what we don't want for these obsolete symbols."
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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