[Zlib-devel] Explicit link to libc

[Enrico Weigelt]

* John Bowler <jbowler at frontiernet.net> schrieb:

Hi,

> >What exactly happens when we leave it off ?
> 
> The link has unresolved references.  It's platform dependent 
> whether or not this is permitted.

hmm, I guess on GNU that'll happen w/ --no-undefined ?

> >Shouldn't libc linked into the final binary nevertheless ?
> 
> No, if the unresolved references are permitted then an attempt 
> to resolve each one *may* be made at run time. The resultant 
> symbol doesn't necessarily come from 'libc'...

IMHO there's a global symbol namespace per process, so if the 
resulting binary is linked against libc, that'll also affect
the linked-in zlib ... or maybe I'm totally wrong ?


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