gcc -shared ... -lc ?

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>]

Hi,

while compiling redhat 5.0 rpms, I've found something very strange, when
building shared libraries. Some of the built shared libs are very big and
a nm on them shows, that the whole libc (I guess so) is included.  Binaries
inked against these library just dump core. The built line for these shared 
libs always ends with a -lc. Now I'm wondering wether this is a ld bug or
just a user error. What's really weird is the following patch from one
of the redhat rpms:

--- termcap-2.0.8/Makefile.ewt  Tue Jul  8 11:08:00 1997
+++ termcap-2.0.8/Makefile      Tue Jul  8 11:08:12 1997
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 $(SHARED_LIB): $(OBJS)
        cd pic; \
-       $(CC) -shared -o ../$@ -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME_SHARED_LIB) $(OBJS)
+       $(CC) -shared -o ../$@ -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME_SHARED_LIB) $(OBJS) -lc
 
 pic:
        -if [ ! -d pic ]; then mkdir pic; fi

So it looks like the ld for alpha and i386 don't include the whole libc
when linked with the comand line above. Any hints ?

Thomas.

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