ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol

ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol

[Luk Claes]

Hi

There appears to be a mips specific bug in binutils which make some 
packages fail to build when linking. More details can be found in debian 
bug #519006 [0] and binutils upstream bug #10144 [1].

Can someone please look into it?

Thanks already

Luk

Debian Release Manager

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519006
[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10144

Re: ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol

[Kevin Cernekee]

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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote:

> There appears to be a mips specific bug in binutils which make some
> packages fail to build when linking. More details can be found in debian bug
> #519006 [0] and binutils upstream bug #10144 [1].
>

I have seen this error when -fPIC is accidentally omitted from CFLAGS when
building shared libraries.

Older versions of MIPS gcc used to implicitly generate PIC code for pretty
much all Linux executables and libraries, so if you forgot to add -fPIC it
usually worked anyway.  But with the addition of PLT support this is no
longer the case.  MIPS gcc now defaults to non-PIC code, which is more
efficient and easier to read in the disassembly.  The downside is that all
of the old broken Makefiles need to be fixed.

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