[Bug gold/10238] Gold linker does not resolve symbols using indirect dependencies

[mattijs.janssens at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10238

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--- Comment #18 from mattijs.janssens at gmail dot com 2012-12-10 15:59:09 UTC 
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This feature is causing us quite a headache. We are developing an open source
application (OpenFOAM) which is chock full of models and models of models which
are in separate libraries. We have always used the facility of indirect linkage
so a library needs to link in only those libraries it directly calls, and not
those that those libraries need. Works great.

If we want to use gold we suddenly need to specify all the indirectly used
libraries. Why should a user of our libraries need to know that e.g. the
turbulence library internally depends on the liquid properties library (and
about 10 more)?

>From my point of view: I have gone through all my dependencies and not link in
more than needed and have 'told' the linker so with --copy-dt-needed-entries,
--no-as-needed. But it seems to ignore these now.

Below a modification of the testscript which demonstrates the indirect linking
problem at the shared library level.

My question: can we please keep/have an option to tell the linker to do
indirect linkage.

Thanks,

Mattijs


# Build libl3.so with no dependents
echo 'l3() { ; }' > l3.c
gcc -Xlinker --no-as-needed -Xlinker  --copy-dt-needed-entries -Xlinker
-rpath=. -shared -fPIC -o libl3.so l3.c

# Build libl2.so  that depends on libl3.so
echo 'l2() { l3(); }' > l2.c
gcc -Xlinker --no-as-needed -Xlinker  --copy-dt-needed-entries -Xlinker
-rpath=. -shared -fPIC -o libl2.so l2.c -L. -ll3

# Build libl1.so that depends on libl2.so
echo 'l1() { l2(); }' > l1.c
gcc -Xlinker --no-as-needed -Xlinker  --copy-dt-needed-entries -Xlinker
-rpath=. -shared -fPIC -o libl1.so l1.c -L. -ll2

# Build main source file which depends on l1 only (so indirectly on l2)
echo 'main() { l1(); }' > top.c
gcc top.c -L. -ll1

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