Bug#591544: libc6: dlopen() does not return when static compilation is used

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:59:50PM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.11.2-2
> Severity: important
> 
> The jpilot package ./configure script generate a test program that does
> not finish.
> 
> A short version of the problematic source code is:
> 
> #include <dlfcn.h>
> 
> int main ()
> {
>   void *self = dlopen (0, RTLD_GLOBAL | RTLD_LAZY);
> 
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> And is compiled using:
> 
> $ gcc -o conftest -g -Wall   -DHAVE_DLFCN_H  -Wl,--export-dynamic -static conftest.c -ldl
> conftest.c: In function ‘main’:
> conftest.c:5: warning: unused variable ‘self’
> /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccToBZZa.o: in function main:conftest.c:5: warning: Using `dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
> 
> The warning may be an indication that something strange is happening.
> 
> Then the execution:
> 
> $ ./conftest
> But never returns and the ./configure never finishes.
> 

Are you using binutils-gold? If yes you are probably hitting bug#584607.

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