> But, seriously, this crtend.o problem makes me crazy, too.

Unless ld is truly broken, you need a .so with a SONAME of crtend.so
in order to get a program (or other library) with a NEEDED of
crtend.so.

Maybe searching for that (on a system that is generating broken
binaries) would give some vital evidence.

eg something like:

find /lib -type f | while read f
do
objdump -p $f 2>/dev/null | grep 'SONAME.*crtend' && echo $f
done

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk