Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm having a hell of a time doing this so I can produce a static
> .o or .a with most of the symbols stripped. Two problems seem to be
> that even if I use "ld -r -o main.o obj1.o obj2.c libfoo.a" then I
> can not strip symbols in obj1.o that are referenced from obj2.o
> even after I combine the object files.
You can link all your object files into one:
$ ld -r -o all.o foo.o bar.o baz.o
then strip unwanted symbols with {objcopy,strip} -N (or better yet,
use {objcopy,strip} -K to strip all symbols except the ones you want
to export)
this is precisely what we do with klds to reduce namespace pollution.
DES
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