[Bug gold/10238] Gold linker does not resolve symbols using indirect dependencies

[ian at airs dot com]

------- Additional Comments From ian at airs dot com  2009-10-12 20:02 -------
To be clear, gold does not require that you enumerate all indirect dependencies
of shared libraries.  gold will not complain if a shared library refers to a
function defined in some dependency of that shared library.

What gold requires is that you enumerate all direct dependencies of the program
itself.  If your program calls foo(), then you must explicitly link against some
library which defines foo().  The GNU linker permits foo() to be defined
indirectly, by a dependency of some shared library which you do explicitly link
against.  gold does not search those indirect dependencies for symbol 
definitions.

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10238

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