combining object files and managing relocatable symbols

[H. J. Lu]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:58:59PM +0200, Erik Leunissen wrote:
> I've got two ELF object files; let's call them A.o and B.o.
> 
> A.o refers to a symbol X, which is defined in B.o
> 
> What I want to accomplish is to create a new relocatable object file C.o 
> from these object files such that:
> 1. the reference to X in A.o is resolved
> 2. symbol X in C.o is unavailable for further linking against. I guess 
> this means reducing it to a local symbol.
> 
> Doing a partial link does step 1 ( ld -r -nostdlib -o C.o A.o B.o ).
> However, I did not find a way to do step 2.
> 

Have you tried

# objcopy --localize-symbol X C.o


H.J.