try to suppress linking libc.so if there are undefined symbols

this is always an error and usually results from failure to find/link
the compiler runtime library, but it could also result from
implementation errors in libc, using functions that don't (yet) exist.
either way the resulting libc.so will crash mysteriously at runtime.
the crash happens too early to produce a meaningful error, so these
crashes are very confusing to users and waste a lot of debugging time.
this commit should ensure that they do not happen.

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 49d838441f4a78155438690fcf23f3f83e3f8965..de357bc2221022d135d03f9a936b5b3162ed7857 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -499,6 +499,12 @@ fi
 # Some patched GCC builds have these defaults messed up...
 tryldflag LDFLAGS_AUTO -Wl,--hash-style=both
 
+# Prevent linking if there are undefined symbols; if any exist,
+# libc.so will crash at runtime during relocation processing.
+# The common way this can happen is failure to link the compiler
+# runtime library; implementation error is also a possibility.
+tryldflag LDFLAGS_AUTO -Wl,--no-undefined
+
 test "$shared" = "no" || {
 # Disable dynamic linking if ld is broken and can't do -Bsymbolic-functions
 LDFLAGS_DUMMY=