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RFH: libgcc_s.so being unnecessarily linked for mipsel-linux cross compiler...

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu Jul 28 20:37:00 GMT 2005 
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:48:31PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> I am not sure if this is a GCC problem or a binutils problem.
> 
> I have a a mipsel-linux cross compiler (gcc-3.4.3/binutils-2.16.1) and 
> whenever I compile even the simplest hello-world.c libgcc_s.so is linked.
> 
> When I do the same thing natively on my i686/FC3, libgcc_s.so is not linked.
> 
> If if explicitly pass -static-libgcc to the cross compiler I do not need 
> libgcc_s.so (as would be expected).
> 
> As you can see from the transcript below libgcc_s is being linked with 
> --as-needed.
> 
> Also you can see that neither hello-world.o nor my libc-2.3.3.so have 
> any undefined symbols that would be satisfied by libgcc_s.so.
> 
> Any ideas about what is going on here?
> 

Does your glibc need libgcc_s.so? Can you try the current binutils?


H.J.
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