Fwd: Cannot build uclibc++ against toolchain (dl_iterate_phdr & __tls_get_addr )

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 27 October 2008 15:02:19 Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 27 October 2008 12:50:13 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> > Sorry for having confused with multiple patches/proposal and emails.
> > Currently the dl_iterate_phdr symbols is defined in ld-uClibc.so.0 and
> > libdl.a. The idea is to move into libc.so.0 and libc.a (exactly as glibc
> > does).
>
> Well, that sounds like a good thing all by itself.  Why is uClibc defining
> it in a different place than glibc does right now?  (And why don't more
> programs break due to that?)
>
> For one thing, a statically linked program would never get dl_iterate_phdr
> right now, right?  (What does that symbol _do_, anyway?  Is there some
> documentation I should read up on somewhere?)

it turns out there's an existing gentoo bug on this:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/117523

So yes, I think your patch should be applied (probably to 0.9.30.1):
http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2008-January/018969.html

Rob