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Re: -z defs option

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Can we add a flag
>> to avoid -z defs for all shared libraries?
> 
> I've made some change so that if you define
> 
>   no-z-defs = yes
> 
> the option will never be used.  Please try it.

It works fine. Thanks a lot.
 
> But you should also be aware that the -z defs test is a good check for
> correctness and avoiding this option is not the best thing to do.  But I
> don't know the ABI well enough, maybe the undefined symbol cannot be
> avoided.

Sure. It might be better to add a new ld option to allow an exception
for -z defs something like --allow-shlib-undefined-sym SYMBOL.

Regards,
	kaz
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