Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Anyway, I thought CVS binutils had a patch to deal with this setup,
> but reading the ld/NEWS entry, I'm not so sure anymore whether it
> is sufficient:
>
> * --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
> symbols in regular objects, or in oth
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 05:02:36PM CET:
> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:22:14PM CET:
> > gcc k.c -Wl,--as-needed -lreadline -ltermcap
> To work around it in the test, I suppose you can link a program
> that also requires a symbol from termcap.
Hmm. T
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> libreadline depends upon libtermcap, but does not announce this
> dependency with a DT_NEEDED entry (i.e., -ltermcap was not passed
> to the command creating libreadline.so). This is arguably a bug
> in libreadline (but probably done intentionally to allow choosing
> eithe
Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:22:14PM CET:
> When testing for the readline library, this works fine:
>
> echo 'char readline (); int main () { return readline (); }' > k.c
> gcc k.c -lreadline -ltermcap
>
> but in order to work around portability problems years
