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the way ld evaluates and chooses libraries
- From: "Jeremy Monnet" <jmonnet at gmail dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:58:09 +0200
- Subject: the way ld evaluates and chooses libraries
Hi,
Hope I'm coming to the right place to ask my question.
I needed for work to compile a c++ program on a linux box. This
program did link on some machines, and did not on others. After many
research we found that it was a bug in the last oracle patch of
libocci.so.9.0 . The problem was on the system with last update, this
lib was looking for libstdc++.so.5 instead of version 6. But all the
other part of the program were by way also trying to link to version 5
instead of 6.
So I was wondering how did ld was selecting its libraries ? I believe
there is a kind of optimisation : after looking to all the
dependencies, ld tries to shorten the list of libraries to link
against. Am I right ?
Any pointer on documentation, etc would be appreciated.
Regards,
Jeremy
PS : I am not on the list, so please CC me when replying. Thanks a lot !
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