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Re: Problems with using libtool dependencies in opcodes


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> [...]
>> What exactly from my message explaining the patch is not clear?
>> 
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-05/msg00424.html
>> 
>> libopcodes.so using functionality from libbfd.so and therefore we need
>> to add a DL_NEEDED reference in libopcodes.so to give:
>> $ ldd /usr/lib/libopcodes.so 
>>         libbfd-2.14.90.0.5.so => /usr/lib/libbfd-2.14.90.0.5.so (0x4002c000)
>>         libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x400c8000)
>>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
>
> That's precisely the reason I'm prepared to ignore.  I wanted to make
> sure that it didn't also cause a runtime failure in the binutils for
> some reason.

I'm not aware of another runtime failure.

> I am forced to consider build regressions more important than easily
> avoidable or harmless runtime problems and no one has demonstrated a
> fix for the libtool problem this patch uncovered.


Andreas
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