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Simpler Concrete Example Of DSO Linking Change in ld

I checked out a 'devel' version of deltarpm from :

:pserver:anonymous@cvs.fedproject.org:/cvs/pkgs

and ran 'make srpm' to produce a source rpm in order to do a mock build. I ran this build with the new binutils rpm (http://roland.fedorapeople.org/ld-test/) so that it would have the version of ld with the proposed changes. After running the build the following error appeared in the log file :

RPM build errors:
/usr/bin/ld.bfd: rpmdumpheader.o: undefined reference to symbol 'Fopen'
/usr/bin/ld.bfd: note: 'Fopen' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/librpmio.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/librpmio.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
*** /usr/bin/ld: ld behavior mismatch! ***
*** /usr/bin/ld.bfd succeeeded ***
*** /usr/bin/ld.bfd --no-add-needed exits 1 ***
*** arguments: --eh-frame-hdr --build-id -m elf_i386 --hash-style=gnu -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -o rpmdumpheader
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.4.2/../../../crt1.o /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.4.2/../../../crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.4.2/crtbegin.o
-L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.4.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.4.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.4.2/../../.. rpmdumpheader.o -lrpm -lgcc 
--as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed -lc -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.4.2/crtend.o
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.4.2/../../../crtn.o
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [rpmdumpheader] Error 1


So this would seem to indicate that the version of deltarpm used was using /usr/lib/librpmio.so.0 without explicitly linking to it. The solution would be to simply ensure that any binaries that use librpmio.so, have a -lrpmio added when linking is happening.

Making the following change to the Makefile fixes this problem :

rpmdumpheader: rpmdumpheader.o
-       $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $^ -lrpm -o $@
+       $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $^ -lrpm -lrpmio -o $@