binutils-2.11.90 seems to work just fine for me.
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> Some of you may remember that my updating glibc to 2.2.4, then 2.2.5, on
> my Caldera eWorkstation 3.1 system has caused me a little grief. Most
> centering around an error involving an undefined reference to atexit
> when compiling and/or configuring source code.
>
> Well, while reading up on WTF glibc-2.2.93 was, I ran accross these
> little nuggets in the current glibc FAQ:
>
> <quote>
> 3.23. I get "undefined reference to `atexit'"
> {UD} This means that your installation is somehow broken. The situation
> is the same as for 'stat', 'fstat', etc (see question 2.7). Investigate
> why the linker does not pick up libc_nonshared.a.
>
> If a similar message is issued at runtime this means that the
> application or DSO is not linked against libc. This can cause problems
> since 'atexit' is not exported anymore.
>
> 2.7. Looking through the shared libc file I haven't found the functions
> `stat', `lstat', `fstat', and `mknod' and while linking on my Linux
> system I get error messages. How is this supposed to work?
> {RM} Believe it or not, stat and lstat (and fstat, and mknod) are
> supposed to be undefined references in libc.so.6! Your problem is
> probably a missing or incorrect /usr/lib/libc.so file; note that this is
> a small text file now, not a symlink to libc.so.6. It should look
> something like this:
>
> GROUP ( libc.so.6 libc_nonshared.a )
> </quote>
>
> Interestingly, my /usr/lib/libc.so file is as such:
> $ cat /usr/lib/libc.so
> /* GNU ld script
> Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
> the static library, so try that secondarily. */
> GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a )
>
> So that looks right, both /lib/libc.so.6 and /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a
> exist and they both appear to be version 2.2.5 files (based on the file
> creation dates).
>
> Based on the FAQ's answer of "Investigate why the linker does not pick
> up libc_nonshared.a...", I'm thinking now that binutils may be the
> problem. Anyone know of any other reason that the linker wouldn't be
> picking up libc_nonshared.a? Anyone recommend what version of binutils
> to try?
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
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