From 1fdd83f8979cff7875de53dfa3f99bd7d9ac838d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:46:10 +0000
Subject: There's some strange bug in glibc that triggers if you combine the
 --gc-sections linker flag with static linking.  If this happens, then the
 "stdout" variable (used by printf() and such) will only work if stdout is
 _not_ redirected.  I.E "./busybox" prints stuff, but "./busybox | cat" does
 not produce any output.  (But even when redirected, "write(1,"blah",4);"
 continues to work just fine.)

This is clearly a glibc bug, but to avoid triggering it I've moved the
--gc-sections flag so it only gets added when we're not statically linking.
If somebody would like to go poke Ulrich Drepper, you can trivially reproduce
this with a "hello world" program, ala:

  gcc -static -Wl,--gc-sections hello.c &&  (./a.out | cat)
---
 Rules.mak | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Rules.mak b/Rules.mak
index a99d42bef..e4ac81705 100644
--- a/Rules.mak
+++ b/Rules.mak
@@ -267,8 +267,6 @@ ifeq ($(strip $(CONFIG_DEBUG)),y)
     CFLAGS +=-g
 else
     CFLAGS +=-DNDEBUG
-    CHECKED_LDFLAGS += $(call check_ld,$(LD),--sort-common,)
-    CHECKED_LDFLAGS += $(call check_ld,$(LD),--gc-sections,)
 endif
 
 ifneq ($(strip $(CONFIG_DEBUG_PESSIMIZE)),y)
@@ -288,6 +286,11 @@ endif
 STRIPCMD:=$(call check_strip,$(STRIP),-s --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment,$(STRIP))
 ifeq ($(strip $(CONFIG_STATIC)),y)
     PROG_CFLAGS += $(call check_cc,$(CC),-static,)
+else
+    ifneq ($(strip $(CONFIG_DEBUG)),y)
+        CHECKED_LDFLAGS += $(call check_ld,$(LD),--sort-common,)
+        CHECKED_LDFLAGS += $(call check_ld,$(LD),--gc-sections,)
+    endif
 endif
 CFLAGS_SHARED := $(call check_cc,$(CC),-shared,)
 LIB_CFLAGS+=$(CFLAGS_SHARED)
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