[uClibc]no symbols in .so libraries

[Brendan J Simon]

I am using uClibc maintained under a configuration management system 
called Aegis.  The uClibc binaries are called from the baseline of the 
uClibc Aegis project.  Unfortuantely the DEVEL_PREFIX changes during 
various stages of building uClibc under Aegis and thus the final 
wrappers reference a directory that no longer exists :(

The work around is for me to us nostdinc, nostdlib, etc and manually 
specify all the libraries, included files, startup files, etc.  I have 
no problem with this as this is what I was doing when using glibc.  My 
programs now compile but do not link.  I get undefined references to 
printf, etc.  It looks like it can't find the libraries but the command 
line looks OK to me.  On closer inspection I notice that all the 
lib*.so.0 files do not have any symbols.  This is surely incorrect for 
dynamic linking, isn't it ???

Here's the output (I have formatted the options for better readability)

/home/aegis/uclibc/branch.0/branch.9/branch.12/branch.0/baseline/myproject/devel/bin/gcc
    -nostdlib
    -nodefaultlibs
    -nostartfiles
    -Linstall/lib
    
-L/home/aegis/uclibc/branch.0/branch.9/branch.12/branch.0/baseline/myproject/devel/usr/lib
    
-L/home/aegis/uclibc/branch.0/branch.9/branch.12/branch.0/baseline/myproject/devel/lib
    -o build/drivers/usi/tools/testr
    build/drivers/usi/tools/testr.o
    
/home/aegis/uclibc/branch.0/branch.9/branch.12/branch.0/baseline/myproject/devel/lib/crt0.o
    
/home/aegis/uclibc/branch.0/branch.9/branch.12/branch.0/baseline/myproject/devel/lib/crti.o
    /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/crtbegin.o
    -lpthread
    -lc
    /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/crtend.o
    
/home/aegis/uclibc/branch.0/branch.9/branch.12/branch.0/baseline/myproject/devel/lib/crtn.o
build/drivers/usi/tools/testr.o: In function `printb':
build/drivers/usi/tools/testr.o(.text+0x50): undefined reference to `printf'
build/drivers/usi/tools/testr.o(.text+0x50): relocation truncated to 
fit: R_PPC_REL24 printf
build/drivers/usi/tools/testr.o(.text+0x64): undefined reference to `printf'
build/drivers/usi/tools/testr.o(.text+0x64): relocation truncated to 
fit: R_PPC_REL24

How do I get my programs to link with shared libraries that have no 
symbols ???
Thanks,
Brendan Simon.