Re: Current binutils failed to build glibc

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:56:57PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Maybe it is not being taken from libc_pic.a at all, just ld when it
> > reads what symbols/objects it might need from libc_pic.a already complains.
> 
> Well, fooey on that.  It shouldn't be doing that.  What if a user wants to
> define a symbol it is allowed to define and not make use of the conflicting
> library code that might use the same names for different purposes?

It is __libc_errno, which is referenced by many .o files in libc_pic.a.
Whan ld is trying to resolve __libc_errno because a .o file is used to
resolve a reference by ld.so, it will pull in errno.os for __libc_errno.


H.J.