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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:28:00 -0000
From: "Pedro Alves" <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>
To: "Markus Deuling" <deuling@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc] testsuite/lib/gdb.exp: Enable additional linker flags in gdb_compile_shlib
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On 5/16/07, Markus Deuling <deuling@xxx> wrote:
> I try to build a shared library using gdb_compile_shlib. The build is done in two steps (compile and link).
>
> The testcase I work on adds
>   set lib_flags "$lib_flags additional_flags=-Wl,-Bsymbolic"
> as an option to gdb_compile_shlib. The compile run quits with
>   gcc: -Bsymbolic: linker input file unused because linking not done
> because the linker option is given to the compile run, too.
>

I've seen something similar before.  Did you try using ldflags instead?
I think those will only be used when linking.

set lib_flags "$lib_flags ldflags=-Wl,-Bsymbolic"

Cheers,
Pedro Alves