[openbeos] Re: why an alternative ld?
- From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:19:36 EST (-0300)
> > > I suppose the stock BeOS ld knows only about the
> > > libs that came with BeOS (libroot.so, libbe.so, libstdc++.r4.so)
> > > so a modified one would be needed to link obos objects with
> > > the obos libc.so. Correct? If so, then, where can I find this
> > > modified
> > > ld?
> >
> > No, this has nothing to do with it. The proiblem is the BeOS ld was
> > including some weird symbols in the resulting object files and
> > those
> > symbols prevented the kernel from working (as they were not
> > available
> > when the files looked for them). This new version just fixes this
> > bug.
>
> If it's just what it's all about, why not just
>
> objcopy --strip-symbol weirdsymbol1 --strip-symbol weirdsymbol2
> myobject.o
>
> ?
So, you're sugesting it is better to manuallyu remove the symbols after
linking than to actually use a ld that does not have this *BUG*? This
sounds a bit weird to me.
-Bruno
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