On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 01:14:24PM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > > Yes, glibc 2.4 is required for GCC 4.9 because of this.
> >
> > Should that be noted at
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-linux-gnu ?
>
> Probably, unless someone knows how to work around it. We traced it to the
> missing AS_NEEDED in /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 ) )
But that should be generally needed only when linking with -Wl,-z,defs ,
without it the linker shouldn't care.
Jakub
