* Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040110 03:17] wrote:
> 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.
It will refuse to strip symbols if:
foo.o:func1() references bar.o:func2().
But I need it to.
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