From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: dependency list for static libraries
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53b8973b-40a4-2550-3307-66d7f13707d5@symas.com> (raw)
We often get link errors when switching from dynamic linking to static
linking, because dynamic libraries list all of their own dependency libraries,
and static libraries don't. (And the program being linked doesn't know about
those indirect dependencies.)
It Would Be Nice if we could add a dependency list to a static library too.
Much like ranlib creates an index for a static library already, store the list
of dependencies in a reserved module.
It seems to me I've made this suggestion before but Google and my memory have
failed to locate it. We'd need either a new tool like ranlib, or a new flag to
ar to store a list of dependencies, and then linker support to lookup the
dependency list whenever referencing a static library.
--
-- Howard Chu
CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
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2017-09-19 15:49 Howard Chu [this message]
2017-09-19 15:52 ` Simon Richter
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2017-09-19 16:04 ` Howard Chu
2017-09-20 1:42 ` R0b0t1
2017-09-19 16:54 ` Joseph Myers
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2017-09-19 22:01 ` Howard Chu
2017-09-20 0:20 ` Joseph Myers
2020-09-03 20:42 ` Howard Chu
2020-09-22 10:39 ` Nick Clifton
2020-09-22 11:42 ` Howard Chu
2020-09-22 13:12 ` Nick Clifton
2020-09-22 16:23 ` [PATCH] " Howard Chu
2020-09-22 17:16 ` Fangrui Song
2020-09-22 17:55 ` Howard Chu
2020-09-22 20:46 ` Howard Chu
2020-09-23 11:52 ` Nick Clifton
2020-09-23 15:29 ` Howard Chu
2020-09-24 5:21 ` Fangrui Song
2020-09-24 9:19 ` Howard Chu
2020-09-24 9:30 ` Howard Chu
2020-09-28 11:07 ` Howard Chu
2020-10-28 14:56 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-03 15:14 ` Nick Clifton
2020-11-03 15:31 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-08 1:39 ` Alan Modra
2020-11-08 15:07 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-09 0:01 ` Alan Modra
2020-11-10 2:44 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-10 11:07 ` Alan Modra
2020-11-11 14:57 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-11 14:59 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-17 14:01 ` Nick Clifton
2020-11-04 0:33 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-04 11:01 ` Nick Clifton
2020-11-04 14:50 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-06 12:38 ` Nick Clifton
2020-11-13 14:40 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-24 17:49 ` Howard Chu
2020-11-25 11:17 ` Nick Clifton
2020-12-01 0:08 ` Howard Chu
2020-12-14 14:28 ` Nick Clifton
2020-12-15 16:17 ` Jim Wilson
2020-12-15 16:22 ` Jeff Law
2020-12-15 16:50 ` Nick Clifton
2020-12-15 19:11 ` Jeff Law
2020-12-15 20:04 ` Jim Wilson
2020-12-15 20:22 ` Cary Coutant
2020-12-15 20:51 ` Howard Chu
2020-12-16 11:16 ` Nick Clifton
2020-12-16 14:49 ` [PATCH] ld: Call plugin hooks only if they are available H.J. Lu
2020-12-16 18:34 ` Howard Chu
2020-12-16 18:40 ` H.J. Lu
2020-12-16 19:06 ` Howard Chu
2020-12-16 19:11 ` [PATCH] ld: Skip libdep plugin if not all plugin hooks " H.J. Lu
2020-12-16 21:26 ` Howard Chu
2020-12-16 21:47 ` H.J. Lu
2020-12-16 18:44 ` [PATCH] ld: Call plugin hooks only if they " Howard Chu
2020-12-15 20:33 ` [PATCH] dependency list for static libraries Cary Coutant
2020-12-15 20:53 ` Howard Chu
2020-12-16 11:18 ` Nick Clifton
2020-12-23 13:27 ` Matthias Klose
2020-12-23 18:23 ` Howard Chu
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