http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44855
--- Comment #8 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-03-29 19:51:15 UTC --- I should have read the code properly ... if you've suppressed implicit instantiation in main.cpp and you want the explicit instantiation in a shared object to be used I would expect that you need to *either* use -fpic so the instantiation in the .so is used *or* declare the explicit instantiation by uncommenting the "extern template" declaration. So I think the behaviour you're seeing is normal
