On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Cherry G. Mathew wrote:

> > > I'm trying to get an elf binary with .dynamic and friends available
> > > and _DYNAMIC defined properly. ( Essentially a shared obj. ) It looks
> > > like doing LDFLAGS +=  -nostdlib makes linking static.

BTW, on NetBSD, -nostdlib should not cause "static" linking.  However:

> > Why does -shared (without -nostdlib) not work for you?
>
> It won't work for boot code. The dynamic relocator code within the
> boot code walks through the .dynamic section to resolve run-time
> linking.

If you're going this low-level route, you may want to consider invoking ld
directly, with -shared.

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