[PATCH] D14382: [ELF2] - Basic implementation of -r/--relocatable

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-commits]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:57:01AM +0000, Ed Maste via llvm-commits wrote:
> On 5 November 2015 at 18:13, Davide Italiano via llvm-commits
> <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > Just FYI even in FreeBSD this is not very high priority. -r is used
> > only for OpenPAM and another few modules that we can (easily)
> > disabled.
> 
> We can disable the openpam_static build, but then we won't have the
> static openpam library. Although it's a little odd, we do rely on -r's
> functionality.

Right, simulating dlopen for static archives is one area where
relocatable objects are very helpful. They don't export any symbols
beside linker sets, so normal archive handling wouldn't work.

Joerg