Let GNU ld be less obscure about missing symbols and DSOs. If the BFD

object looks like a typical shared library, suggest adding '-l<foo>',
where <foo> has the 'lib' prefix and '.so<bar>' or '.a' suffix removed.

Otherwise, suggest adding '-l:<foo>', where <foo> is the full DT_SONAME.

Submitted by:	Conrad Meyer <conrad.meyer@isilon.com>
Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by:	emaste
PR:		194296
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1152
This commit is contained in:
Dimitry Andric 2014-12-02 01:30:53 +00:00
parent e3ef75f1ea
commit 2d764cca51
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=275386
2 changed files with 33 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -4356,9 +4356,38 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
--no-add-needed is used. */
if ((elf_dyn_lib_class (abfd) & DYN_NO_NEEDED) != 0)
{
bfd_boolean looks_soish;
const char *print_name;
int print_len;
size_t len, lend = 0;
looks_soish = FALSE;
print_name = soname;
print_len = strlen(soname);
if (strncmp(soname, "lib", 3) == 0)
{
len = print_len;
if (len > 5 && strcmp(soname + len - 2, ".a") == 0)
lend = len - 5;
else
{
while (len > 6 && (ISDIGIT(soname[len - 1]) ||
soname[len - 1] == '.'))
len--;
if (strncmp(soname + len - 3, ".so", 3) == 0)
lend = len - 6;
}
if (lend != 0)
{
print_name = soname + 3;
print_len = lend;
looks_soish = TRUE;
}
}
(*_bfd_error_handler)
(_("%B: invalid DSO for symbol `%s' definition"),
abfd, name);
(_("undefined reference to symbol `%s' (try adding -l%s%.*s)"),
name, looks_soish? "" : ":", print_len, print_name);
bfd_set_error (bfd_error_bad_value);
goto error_free_vers;
}

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@ -2438,9 +2438,9 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Warning: size of symbol `%s' changed from %lu in %B to %lu in %B"
msgstr ""
#: elflink.c:4309
#: elflink.c:4389
#, c-format
msgid "%B: invalid DSO for symbol `%s' definition"
msgid "undefined reference to symbol `%s' (try adding -l%s%.*s)"
msgstr ""
#: elflink.c:5535