[systemd-devel] Build error with 218 - undefined reference to `__start_BUS_ERROR_MAP'

[Umut Tezduyar Lindskog]

In case someone has an idea, here is the full linker command:

/bin/sh ./libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link
mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu-gcc  -isystem
/build/target/mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu/include -isystem
/build/target/mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu/usr/include -std=gnu99
-pipe -Wall -Wextra -Wno-inline -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wformat-security
-Wformat-nonliteral -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wmissing-include-dirs
-Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal
-Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow
-Wendif-labels -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long
-Wno-overlength-strings -Wno-unused-parameter
-Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-unused-result -Werror=overflow
-Wnested-externs -ffast-math -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
-fno-strict-aliasing -fvisibility=hidden -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections -fstack-protector -fPIE --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
-flto -ffat-lto-objects   -Wall -Wshadow -O2 -g3 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-fstack-protector  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined
-Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -Wl,-fuse-ld=gold
-module -export-dynamic -avoid-version -shared -shrext .so.2
-Wl,--version-script=/build/apps/systemd/systemd/src/nss-resolve/nss-resolve.sym
-L/build/target/mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu/lib
-L/build/target/mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu/usr/lib
-Wl,-rpath-link,/build/target/mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu/lib:/build/target/mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu/usr/lib
  -o libnss_resolve.la -rpath /usr/lib src/nss-resolve/nss-resolve.lo
libsystemd-shared.la libsystemd-internal.la -lrt -ldl


On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog
<umut at tezduyar.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 11.12.14 23:01, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog (umut at tezduyar.com) wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to build 218 but I am getting undefined reference error. The
>>> source code of bus-error.c mentions that gcc magically maps these
>>> variables but not for me.
>>>
>>> What is doing the mapping? __attribute__ ((__section__("BUS_ERROR_MAP"))) ?
>>>
>>> Could it be that mentioned "gcc magic" is not supported on cross compiling?
>>>
>>> Also, why do we need to use elf section instead of iterating over
>>> bus_standard_errors[]?
>>
>> The idea is that any .c file linked into a binary can define
>> additional maps, and we collect them all simply by iterating through
>> __start_BUS_ERROR_MAP to __stop_BUS_ERROR_MAP.
>>
>> The __start_XYZ/__stop_XYZ magic is pretty old ld/gold stuff, support
>> since a long time.
>>
>> Is there something fishy with your toolchain? Any particular build
>> time options you turned on or off? Some really old ld
>> versions would end up dropping these sections a bit too eagerly:
>
> Maybe. I will ask this internally too.
>
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11133
>>
>> But that's 4y old... Or is your toolchain that old?
>
> Shouldn't be:
>
> mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu-gcc --version
> mipsisa32r2el-axis-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC 4.7.2 Axis release R24/1.24)
> 4.7.2 20120820 (prerelease) [gcc-4_7-branch revision 190527]
>
>
>>
>>>   CCLD     libnss_resolve.la
>>> libsystemd_shared_la-hashmap.o (symbol from plugin): warning: memset
>>> used with constant zero length parameter; this could be due to
>>> transposed parameters
>>> /tmp/ccHr0vVt.ltrans13.ltrans.o: In function `bus_error_name_to_errno.14134':
>>> ccHr0vVt.ltrans13.o:(.text+0x7b0): undefined reference to
>>> `__start_BUS_ERROR_MAP'
>>> ccHr0vVt.ltrans13.o:(.text+0x7b4): undefined reference to `__stop_BUS_ERROR_MAP'
>>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>
>>> Umut
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>>
>>
>> Lennart
>>
>> --
>> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat