underlying bugs which are caused by mixing static/shared libraries with
this change in place.
The shlib code is not capable of supporting this feature in it's present
state and will need significant modifications in order to do so.
members over shared library members. This modification causes the linker
to use the first definition it sees for a symbol instead of having
priorities based on the library type. This modification should allow
gdb to compile again.
Obtained from:
Email conversation with Paul Kranenbury, but implemented completely by
me. If it doesn't work, it's my fault not his.
first place and we were too long in finding out. Now we know, and the
damage is hard to fix. This is part one: ld will not link gcc dynamic,
if specified as "-lgcc".
Suggested by: dyson & davidg
NetBSD ld code except for local changes for dlopen() and friends and
the hashing on the minor value of the shlibs. We should be binary
compatible now with all their libraries.
Obtained from: NetBSD
misfeature caused troubles when a program attempted to access a shlib
where one with a higher minor number has been hashed. Ldconfig does
only include the highest-numbered shlib anyway, so this is in no way a
limitation of generality.
Caution: after installing the new programs, your /var/run/ld.so.hints
needs to be rebuiult; run ldconfig again as it's done from /etc/rc.
warning handling and allows for link-time warnings with a modified
version of gas.
Note: Not all of the newer bits were updated such as some of the non-x86
machine-dependant code is relevant to FreeBSD right now.
Obtained from: NetBSD
completely when ldconfig unlinks it. If init is shared, then the
referenced unlinked copy of the hints file created by running
ldconfig in /etc/rc caused the file system to be unclean after
every reboot.
automagically. -lfoo has to be right to work, but ${LIBFO0} is too
easy to forget or misspell; nothing checks it and it should be
different for shared libraries.
handling of errors through the standard err() and warn()
more fixes for Geoff Rehmet's NULL pointer bug.
fixes NULL pointer bugs when linking mono and nested X servers.
supports a `-nostdlib' option.
accept object files without a symbol table
don't attempt dynamic linking when `-A' is given
a few variable names have chaged (desc -> fd), and the formatting has
changed which should make it much easier to track his sources.
I tested 'make world' for /usr/src and X twice with these changes.
Paul Kranenburg's description:
ld is in error here, assuming that symbols with N_EXT set always have an
entry in the (global) symbol table: this is not the case for C++ generated
constructor/destructor symbols. I can reproduce your failure by fudging
a "multiply defined" constructor symbol by hand. Checking for `g == NULL'
seems to be a ok as a fence for now.
So:
for now, in do_file_warnings() we check if g == NULL, before trying to generate
any warning messages. This prevents a NULL pointer dereference.
to public. These functions are also used in /usr/include/link.h,
so it looks, like they shouldn't be private.
I will ask Paul about that, if this is correct.
late stage due to the fact that link.h was copyright Sun Microsystems.
This version of ld sync's us up with NetBSD's ld and supports compatablily
with NetBSD's -[zZ] flags (which we had reversed). Compiling with this
new ld will give you RRS warnings for libraries which do not contain .type
infomation - these wsarnings are harmless and will go away as soon as you
recompile your libraries (cd /usr/src; make libraries).
You write that
LDFLAGS+= -Xlinker -Bstatic
no more needed, but you have
CFLAGS += -static -I$(.CURDIR) -I$(.CURDIR)/$(MACHINE)
This -static doesn't make any sense in your version,
because it not passed to linker's state (LDFLAGS),
so we have SHARED /usr/bin/ld in this case.
(Older Makefile produce non-shared ld).
I suppose, that -static in CFLAGS was introduced to
make non-shared ld, so I restore previous LDFLAGS
to have non-shared ld. If we want to have shared ld
we need to remove -static from CFLAGS too, not only LDFLAGS,
but this need special issue and corresponding
commit log. Your current version hang into intermediate
state (beetween two sides), so I move it to one side.
Second, I restore NOPIC dependance again from older Makefile:
.if !defined(NOPIC)
SUBDIR+= rtld
.endif
We don't need ld.so, if NOPIC
P.S. I don't see any purpose to commit new makefile, old version
is better.
commented out in #ifdef DEBUG
As Paul told me, it is only informational, nothing more.
I don't want several screens of this information
on each linking (netstat f.e.)
On any other system -z means "standard" ZMAGIC format and is the
default. Therefore I've made -z be standard ZMAGIC and -Z be ZMAGIC
stored in the new a_midmag format.
The "standard" ZMAGIC format is now the default as well.
lib.c:
Pull in archives containing definitions needed by shared objects.
warnings.c:
Less spurious "undefined symbol" msgs for shared library defined
symbols.
ld.c:
Do a better job of recognising data in text segments, eg. `const char []'.
shlib.c,ld/rtld/{Makefile rtld.c}
Use strsep() in stead of strtok() and restore colons in eg. env. vars.
to output the same QMAGIC format as BSDI does. This is triggered by
a new '-q' flag ('-Xlinker -q' in gcc). The default can be changed from
ZMAGIC to QMAGIC by defining DEFAULT_MAGIC=QMAGIC when building ld.
ld won't generate output if there are two .o files with the same
name. It thinks they are multiply defined external references. This
patch explictly allows multiple /file names/ with the same value.
This can happen if you do a two stage link or if you link in file
names that are identical to files in libc.
Otherwise ld.c exits with a status=1 and non error message. Rich
