Brice Goglin, le Wed 05 Sep 2012 16:13:31 +0200, a écrit :
> The problem I was trying to fix below is that linking hwloc plugins on
> Darwin failed because plugins referred to hwloc-core symbols. Nothing on
> the libtool command-line said where to find those symbols (I don't
> understand why it worked on other platforms).

Because on other platforms, undefined symbols are allowed.

> I added -lhwloc as a way to tell the linker "those symbols are there".
> I didn't think it would statically link libhwloc inside the plugins,
> and it doesn't seem to do so (from what I see in objdump). Is this
> what you mean?

No, he means that it'll also make the loader load libhwloc.so. Even if
the application linked libhwloc.a statically.

> It's really a problem when linking, not about loading

But it has effects on loading.

Samuel

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