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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - lld reports "Undefined symbol" for shared lib's dependencies"
   href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23035">23035</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>lld reports "Undefined symbol" for shared lib's dependencies
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <td>lld
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>FreeBSD
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Component</th>
          <td>All Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>davide@freebsd.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>emaste@freebsd.org
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>When a .so depends on another .so, but the 2nd .so is not a direct dependency
of the binary and is not specified on the command line, lld fails due to
"Undefined symbol" errors on the first .so.

[ main.c ]
#include <stdio.h>

int fn1(int);

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        printf("fn1(argc) = %d\n", fn1(argc));
        return 0;
}

[ lib1.c ]
int fn2(int);

int
fn1(int a)
{
        return fn2(a + 1);
}

[ lib2.c ]
int
fn2(int a)
{
        return a + 2;
}

Build the shared libs and main.o:
% clang -Wall -g -fPIC -shared -o lib2.so lib2.c
% clang -Wall -g -fPIC -shared -o lib1.so ./lib2.so lib1.c
% clang -Wall -g -o main.o -c main.c

Link with bfd ld:
% clang -Wall -g -rpath . -o main main.o lib1.so
% ./main
fn1(argc) = 4

Link with lld:
% clang -B. -Wall -g -rpath . -o main main.o lib1.so
warning: ignoring unknown argument: --enable-new-dtags
Undefined symbol: lib1.so: fn2
symbol(s) not found
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)</pre>
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