[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 22:35 -------
Comment #7 does not necessarily indicate that there are a lot of packages which
provide a union-of-defined-symbols interface.  What is indicates is that a lot
of people think that linking against the KDE or GNOME libraries also links
against the X11 libraries.

I didn't make this decision on the basis of an abstract standard of correctness.
 In areas like linker scripts I've adopted the GNU linker behaviour even when it
seems abtractly wrong.  I made this decision because the code in the GNU linker
which does this is ugly and fragile.  It was developed over many years in
response to changes in the dynamic linker.  In order to work correctly in all
cases it must precisely duplicate the dynamic linker, but the dynamic linker
changes over time.

In all cases that I am currently aware of, the fix to use gold is to add a -l
option or two.  I think most package maintainers will be willing to do that once
they are aware of the issue.  Obviously I could be wrong, either about the cause
of the problem or the willingness of package maintainers to change.  However, I
would like to act on the basis of real data rather than speculation.

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