Re: Error making shared lib

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:14:34PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > I just went and ressurected some old code I wrote 3 years ago. It
> > wants to take a couple of static libs, and make a shared lib out of
> > the whole bunch using the --whole-archive flag to ld.
> 
> Yeah, but you're not passing the flag to ld, you're passing it to gcc.
> 
> > Here is the link/compile line:
> > gcc -shared -Xlinker --whole-archive -L../bin-ppc-Linux -L./../kpl/bin-ppc-Linux -L/usr/lib/ -L/usr/lib/ -lpad
> > 
> > Here is an example of the errors:
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o): In function `__dummy':
> > __dummy.o(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `__dummy'
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o)(.text+0x0): first defined here
> 
> Yeah. Try passing -Wl,-whole-archive if you want to pass that option via 
> a gcc command line, instead of to ld itself.

Naw, -Xlinker does that too.

Try ending with -Xlinker --no-whole-archive?  Leaving --whole-archive
on is never what you really want.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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