[oe] Missing GLIBC_<version> tags on binaries

[Khem Raj]

On (02/03/11 15:41), Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:47 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:35, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 19:33 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 17:17, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> > > I just tried linking xfreerdp by hand with gold and the resulting binary
> > > seemed to come out fine.  So I think this is indeed a bug in GNU ld.
> > 
> > Personally I think we need to trace it down (we as project) since it
> > can lead to broken and difficult to trace behaviour. It took 3 days
> > until I managed to identify the symbol failure.
> 
> Yeah, that might be true.  Or we could maybe just switch the default
> linker to be gold, at least on targets that it supports. 

Yes I have been doing this slowly for ARM. but probably it will be
better with gcc 4.6 where linker will be selectable with options

> 
> > I am far from an expert on linking and GNU ld. For debugging it I'd
> > need guidance.
> 
> I think the place to start looking would be _bfd_elf_merge_symbol(),
> which is in bfd/elflink.c.  This gets called by
> elf_link_add_object_symbols() to record the syms that it finds and I
> suspect that one or other of those functions is probably doing the wrong
> thing.
> 
> Or, if you don't want to debug it yourself, you could try to create a
> testcase that shows the problem and then file a bug report with binutils
> upstream.
> 
> p.
> 
> 
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-Khem