Bug 96628

Summary:	Portage strips crucial symbols from static libraries
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ben Anderson <roothorick>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	major	CC:	toolchain
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ben Anderson 2005-06-20 11:00:25 UTC

While stripping symbols to conserve space, Portage strips out symbols that ld needs to link static libraries. This doesn't incapacitate the system, as everything is dynamically linked by default, but when you DO want something statically linked, you'll get "unresolved reference" errors that just don't make sense. This can be predictably reproduced simply by adding "-static" to LDFLAGS and compiling just about anything that links to a library that's available on the system in static form. It can be worked around by adding FEATURES="nostrip" to your make.conf and recompiling all the affected libraries.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-06-20 12:14:18 UTC

the only time ive seen problems with stripping static archives is when users
LDFLAGS were flaky or when the toolchain was doing things wrong

the default strip flags --strip-unneeded is sane

Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-20 13:26:39 UTC

This is invalid.

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-11 11:01:31 UTC

Closing due to old age