Linking Problem with Solaris ld

[Moritz Schulte]

Hello Libtool hackers,

we have seen linking problems during building of Libgcrypt on Solaris
when using the Solaris ld.  I don't know if this is only a ld problem
or also a libtool problem.

What happens is that the ld forgets to include symbols in the final
DSO (libgcrypt.so).  The linking command looks like this:

   gcc -shared -Wl,-h -Wl,libgcrypt.so.11 -o .libs/libgcrypt.so.11.2.0
   .libs/libgcrypt_la-misc.o .libs/libgcrypt_la-global.o
   .libs/libgcrypt_la-sexp.o .libs/libgcrypt_la-stdmem.o
   .libs/libgcrypt_la-secmem.o .libs/libgcrypt_la-missing-string.o
   .libs/libgcrypt_la-module.o .libs/libgcrypt_la-ath.o -z allextract
   ../cipher/.libs/libcipher.a ../mpi/.libs/libmpi.a -z defaultextract
   -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib
   /usr/local/lib/libgpg-error.so -lnsl -lsocket -lc

Now, there are a couple of functions (gcry_ac_*) in ac.o in
../cipher/.libs/libcipher.a.  These functions are not referenced from
any other object file.  That's probably why they are skipped.  (If I
e.g. exclude .libs/libgcrypt_la-global.o from the linking command,
other functions from libcipher.a, which are referenced from
libgcrypt_la-global.o are also skipped)

This happens on at least Solaris 2.6.  Should be reproducible with
Libgcrypt 1.2.1.

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Thanks,
Moritz

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Moritz Schulte

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