[Bug gold/6811] New: system library path heuristics fail in some cases

[kris dot van dot hees at oracle dot com]

The current heuristic in gold to determine whether a library is located in the
system library path (to surpress errors about undefined symbols) fails in cases
where e.g. a stub library exists for the C library.  The stub library would also
be named libc.so, but it would be in a location other than the system library
path.  Still, gold will register that location as the system library path, and
the end result is that suddenly errors end up being reported for undefined
symbols related to libraries in the "real" system library path because they are
not recognized as system libraries anymore.

In all, I do not believe that a heuristic will ever truly work for this
situation because it depends on assumptions that are not guaranteed for all
cases.  A hardcoded (or at-gold-compile-time determined) system library path is
not necessarily guaranteed either, but it is likely to be more robust than the
current heuristic.

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           Summary: system library path heuristics fail in some cases
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.19 (HEAD)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gold
        AssignedTo: ian at airs dot com
        ReportedBy: kris dot van dot hees at oracle dot com
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6811

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