Re: [PATCH] Fix linking with -findirect-dispatch

Am 16.04.2013 11:55, schrieb Matthias Klose:
> Am 16.04.2013 11:48, schrieb Jakub Jelinek:
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:37:07AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>> at dynamic link time it is a dummy library with no symbols that just
>>>> adds DT_NEEDED of the latest and greatest libgcj.so.N, which provides
>>>> all the symbols.
>>>
>>> Which is exactly the problem.  --no-copy-dt-needed-entries has been the
>>> default for a long time now.
>>
>> Why would that be a problem?  libgcj.so the linker sees (i.e. the dummy
>> library) doesn't intentionally have DT_NEEDED libgcj.so.N, programs and
>> shared libraries linked with -findirect-dispatch should be adding
>> libgcj_bc.so to DT_NEEDED, not libgcj.so.N.
>>
>> If this is caused by some recent broken linker change, then that should be
>> better reverted.
> 
> I don't see this with binutils 2.23.2.

I do see this now too, however the root of the problem seems to be a linker
which defaults to --as-needed (which is the case on SuSe afaik).  I can see this
without installing anything, just running the testsuite shows some hundred of
these failures.

  Matthias