Bug#224419: /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_tls_symaddr@GLIBC_PRIVATE'

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:06:23PM +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm seeing some very strange on my firewall (and only there). I'm
> running testing/unstable there. When I tried to compile the kernel
> this morning I got:
> 
> root@kasteel# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> <empty>
> 
> root@kasteel# make
>   HOSTCC  scripts/docproc
>   /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_tls_symaddr@GLIBC_PRIVATE'
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>   make[1]: *** [scripts/docproc] Error 1
>   make: *** [scripts] Error 2
>   
> root@kasteel# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib make
>   HOSTCC  scripts/docproc
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kallsyms
>   CC      scripts/empty.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/mk_elfconfig
>   MKELF   scripts/elfconfig.h
> 
> So explicitly setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH fixes this, but there is only on ld-linux
> installed, so why I should matter...
> 
> I cannot even reproduce this on my server system, which is also running testing/unstable

That makes no sense, but it's more likely to be a binutils problem than
a libc6 problem, I guess... you may want to strace the failing command
and see what ld.so it is opening.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer