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Re: test suite failures with --no-copy-dt-needed-entries


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: test suite failures with --no-copy-dt-needed-entries
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:18:12 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04)

Hi Kurt,

* Kurt Roeckx wrote on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:08:22AM CEST:
> We're seeing this currently in Debian:
> 
> FAIL: tests/tagdemo-make.test

> /bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++  -g -O2   -o tagdemo main.o 
> libbaz.la -ldl
> libtool: link: g++ -g -O2 -o .libs/tagdemo main.o  ./.libs/libbaz.so -ldl 
> -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/kurt/libtool/libtool-2.4/_inst-tagdemo/lib
> /usr/bin/ld: main.o: undefined reference to symbol 'convenience'
> /usr/bin/ld: note: 'convenience' is defined in DSO 
> //home/kurt/libtool/libtool-2.4/tests/tagdemo/.libs/libfoo.so.0 so try adding 
> it to the linker command line
> //home/kurt/libtool/libtool-2.4/tests/tagdemo/.libs/libfoo.so.0: could not 
> read symbols: Invalid operation
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I was expecting this to break with the change in toolchain.
> 
> In case you wonder why we get that error now, it's because gcc now
> passes --no-copy-dt-needed-entries to the linker.  I think I've
> mailed the lists with a similar case just like this before.
> 
> The problem is main.o is linking to libbaz (which is not a
> convenience library, and is linked to libfoo), but is using
> symbols from libfoo directly and not linking too it.  This
> is just wrong, but used to work because ld fixed it for you.
> And libtool probably also tries to fix it for you if you don't
> set link_all_deplibs to no.
> 
> I plan to adjust all the tests to add the proper libraries.
> Would you be interested in the patch?

Yes, please.  I'm not quite sure whether the test case was intended to
exercise this, or it was just inadvertent; the latter is more likely.

Presumably one or more of the tests from the Autotest testsuite in
Libtool fail as well due to this?

Thanks for the report,
Ralf



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