> Do you have any references for this, so I can see exactly > what it means? > > If it just means that if you build an executable image (or > shared library), linking it with library A, and library A is > a shared that is linked with library B, and if the executable > image is *not* linked with library B when you build it, if > the image refers to routines in library B those references > will *not* be treated as resolved by virtue of library B > being dragged in by library B, that doesn't appear to break > the scenario I describe.
This comes from reading the NetBSD 'pkgsrc' mailing list, where some packages are failing to build with newer versions of 'gld'. The 'solution' (which isn't really one) is a linker option to copy DT_NEEDED entries from refernced libraries into the program image. > > This breaks many things! > > Does it, in particular, break the scenario I describe? If I misunderstood your senario, maybe not! But consider something like: I have an old product 'A' that is releases liba.so. I now write a new product 'B' that shares quite a lot of code with product 'A', so i generate a libab.so containing the common parts, and build liba.so with a DT_NEEDED entry for libab.so (and build libb.so). I would like existing program binaries and makefiles to still work unchanged. David - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.