macosx broken constructors in libraries

[David Sugar]

I finally did find a reference on the web that refers to the exact problem I 
was seeing in macosx with GNU Common C++ and the failure to run constructors 
for objects initialized in the shared library; that in certain cases global 
constructors really do not get executed, unless the object or code section it 
is contained in is implicity referenced.  The only link to this topic I ever 
found is from a libtool discussion: 
 
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2002-04/msg00060.html

Which has the first excellant summery of the problem that I had been able to 
find, as well as a strange solution through two step linking...certainly 
there has to be a better or less ugly way?!