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[Lee Woodworth]

Dan Ferris wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> This particular problem is beginnig to drive me insane.  The is on both
> Fedora Core 3 boxes AND our Red Hat Enterprise 3 boxes:
> 
> (1) [~] > gcc test.c -o test.o
> /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_check_caller at GLIBC_PRIVATE'
> /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_tls_symaddr at GLIBC_PRIVATE'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It looks like in the link phase there is reference from libc to these undefined
symbols. On a gentoo/amd64 system I have:
   /lib/libc.so.6 --> libc-2.3.4.so
   /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
and:
   ldd /lib/libc-2.3.4.so
     /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
   ldd /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
     statically linked

The times on /lib/libc-2.3.4.so and /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
are the same. If there was anything really wrong with these libs
your system would be borked as no dynamically linked executables
would be successfully loaded by the kernel (e.g. bash). I've done
this fiddling with the libs.

If the gcc link phase is using a different set of libs than when
programs are loaded by the kernel you could see strangeness. Items
that affect where libs are picked up are LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ldconfig
and the gcc config. If you have the gcc-config program:
    gcc-config -L
will give you an idea of where gcc is pulling in the libs.

Has there been a change in gcc? I have:
    ldd /usr/bin/gcc
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc1000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
where /lib/tls/libc.so.6 --> libc-2.3.4.so

> 
> This error comes from any box that includes stdio.h or anything else
> that needs glibc.
> 
> glibc hasn't been touched since like December.  Any ideas to make this
> problem go away would be appreciated.
> 
> Dan
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