packagers note: do not run ld directly

Stepan Kasal skasal at redhat.com
Wed Aug 8 20:18:19 UTC 2007


Hello Roland,

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:46:54PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> An easy mistake sometimes made in packages' build setup is to run
> ld directly rather than via gcc, e.g. when creating a shared library.
[...]
> For DSOs especially, linking the wrong way causes several subtle
> bugs though things may work correctly when you test them right after
> the build.

Pardon a silly question, but is it possible that

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251410,
  "libtcl8.4.so lacks an SONAME record"

is caused by this?

Thanks,
	Stepan




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