From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle To: Andreas Jaeger Cc: GNU libc hacker Subject: Re: Multiple definition of __libc_multiple_libcs Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:46:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000124160352.B16426@uni-koblenz.de> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-01/msg00167.html On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 05:35:01PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > With the current glibc 2.2, I received the following error message: > /opt/egcs1.1.2/bin/gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -r -o /build-glibc-dl-wip/20000110/elf/librtld.os '-Wl,-(' /build-glibc-dl-wip/20000110/elf/dl-allobjs.os /build-glibc-dl-wip/20000110/libc_pic.a -lgcc '-Wl,-)' > /build-glibc-dl-wip/20000110/libc_pic.a(init-first.os): In function `init': > /libc-dl-wip/csu/../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/init-first.c:61: multiple definition of `__libc_multiple_libcs' > /build-glibc-dl-wip/20000110/elf/dl-allobjs.os(.data+0xe4):/libc-dl-wip/elf/rtld.c: first defined here > > Why do we have in sysdeps/generic/dl-sysdep.c: > int __libc_multiple_libcs = 0; /* Defining this here avoids the inclusion > of init-first. */ > > and also in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/init-first.c: > /* Set nonzero if we have to be prepared for more then one libc being > used in the process. Safe assumption if initializer never runs. */ > int __libc_multiple_libcs = 1; > > and why is this a problem on Linux/MIPS and not on Linux/ix86? I'm a > little bit confused and appreciate your help. > > Is this a bug in binutils? On Linux/MIPS I use: > $ ld --version > GNU ld 2.9.5 Is this vanilla 2.9.5 or the one from oss.sgi.com with my patches applied? I remember having fixed various bugs like this but it's too long since then, forgot all the details. Ralf