On 10/10/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/10/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Not so strangely, it's using the version of gcc I had to use to build
> > pistachio on the G5 that Ron couldn't get going with whatever was on his
> Red
> > Hat system :-)
>
> yes, the l4 build system gets annoyed when a .so is not a .so but is,
> in fact an ldscript:
>
> ls -l /usr/lib/libc.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 2007-07-08 04:41 /usr/lib/libc.so
> [rminnich@xcpu ~]$ tail /usr/lib/libc.so
> /* GNU ld script
>    Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
>    the static library, so try that secondarily.  */
> OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-i386)
> GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a  AS_NEEDED (
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ) )
>
> makes you wonder why the bother with a suffix.


s/a suffix//


ron
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