This is the mail archive of the
binutils@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the binutils project.
Re: GCC >= 3 problems
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:43:45PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, H . J . Lu wrote:
>
> > > I'm also running into another problem when it comes to compiling C code
> > > using the Mesa 3D libraries. Here is the error I receive:
> > >
> > > /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `atexit'
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > make: *** [maze] Error 1
> >
> > If you use Linux and glibc 2.2, it can be caused by a linker bug. Which
> > binutils are you using? My Linux binutils has a fix for that.
>
> It may not necessarily be a linker bug. It's a result of crtendS.o
> referencing atexit() in older versions of gcc. But there is no atexit()
> in libc.so -- it's only defined in libc_nonshared.a (thus it may be pulled
> in and provided by executables). A recompilation of libglut.so with the
> new gcc should fix the problem.
That is why I call it a linker bug. Why do you have to recompile a
library? Everything should work fine without recompiling.
H.J.