> ld -Bdynamic -o libc.so.12.3 *
> (This worked in SunOS).  It complains of no "__DYNAMIC" symbol.

To make a shared library, use:

	ld -Bshareable -o lib... *.o

or, to convert an archive of `-fpic' objects use the special shortcut:

	ld -Bforcearchive -Bshareable -o lib... *.o

(this is equivalent to doing `ar x foo.a; ld -Bshareable *.o').


> ld -Bshareable -Bdynamic -o libc.so.12.3 *
> Which worked but gave hundreds of errors like:
> ld: yplib.o: RRS text relocation at 0x3ed6f for "_clnt_perror"
> ld: yplib.o: RRS text relocation at 0x3ed9d for "_strdup"

You get those if you try to link non-PIC object files into a shared library.
The linker tries to tell you that it was forced to leave in relocations
to the output file's text segment.

> Hmm... now that I think about it, perhaps I should have used libc_pic.a
> as the basis rather than libc.a...

Yes.

-pk