Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-08-19 21:19, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:14:40PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>: > Doesn't ld *statically* link code from .a archives?
>:
>: 'statically' is such an overloaded term I prefer to avoid using it.
>:
>: The C linker will include the body of functions defined in non-shared
>: libraries into every shared object that references them, AFAIK.  This is
>: obvious if you run nm(1) on libbar.so of the example above, because the
>: libfoo_init() function is listed as 'T'.  I think that's what you want
>: by making the libfoo.a library non-shared in the first place.
>
> I can see from nm(1) that the function I want is there ('T').  And reading
> about ld(1) talks about the '-(' option for searching the .a archives until
> there are no unresolved symbols.  But it still doesn't find mine unless I
> link it with the binary, not the calling shared object.

I think I'll have to see a minimal example that reproduces the problem.