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Rob Landley committed 1fdd83f8979
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)