[PATCH] collect2, OpenBSD, and dynamic libraries

Jeffrey A Law law@upchuck.cygnus.com
Thu May 13 00:19:00 GMT 1999


  In message < 19990512171626.A27338@tetto.liafa.jussieu.fr >you write:
  > The following patch turns out to be needed for collect2 to do the
  > right thing on OpenBSD...
  > 
  > This is the kind of thing that's best handled by the linking tools
  > proper, but this makes the collect2 solution more complete and robust,
  > which is a good thing: we want to keep collect2 working as a fail-safe
  > solution.
I don't see the point behind the collect2 change -- there should *NOT* be a
way to disable searching of libraries for ctors/dtors.  That's simply
wrong.  collect2 should always search libraries (shared or otherwise) for
ctors/dtors.



jeff


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