unresolved _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar  2, 1999, Daniele Lugli <genlogic@inrete.it> wrote:

> I am trying to port to egcs-2.90.29 (redhat 5.2 i386 Linux) a module
> written in c++ which used to work with some previous version. It
> compiles and links but when I try to insmod I get "unresolved
> _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_".  I think it has something to do with libgcc.a,
> which I need to include in the link.

This may have to do with the fact that libgcc is now compiled with
-fPIC, so that it will work even when symbols are copied into shared
libraries.

You better arrange that you don't need anything from libgcc, or create 
your own version of libgcc without -fPIC.

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