Error: undefined symbol: __gnu_local_gp when building glibc w/ gcc-4.3.1 & binutils-2.18

[Kumba <kumba at gentoo dot org>]

This one has me a bit stumped.  Attempting to get the userland on an SGI box of 
mine up to snuff, and glibc is (I think), playing the part of the monkey wrench 
in my plans.  After building it with gcc-4.3.1 and binutils-2.18, on the O32 
ABI, I get this error when attempting to load any new binaries (like calling 
'sh' after the install):

# sh
sh: symbol lookup error: sh: undefined symbol: __gnu_local_gp
# python
python: symbol lookup error: python: undefined symbol: __gnu_local_gp


There's very little out on google on this particular symbol.  It appears it 
replaced a __gp symbol that binutils' linker emitted, and it may even be tied to 
use of the -mno-shared flag, but I haven't found any information that points to 
glibc itself being affected by this error.

So I thought I'd seek advice here on tracking down and fixing the cause of this. 
 Any thoughts?


Thanks!

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Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org

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