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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.


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