How to relink existing shared library with extra object file

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Published on 2010-04-11T09:57:41Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 10:03 UTC
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I have existing Linux shared object file (shared library) which has been stripped. I want to produce a new version of the library with some additional functions included. I had hoped that something like the following would work, but does not:

ld -o newlib.so newfuncs.o --whole-archive existinglib.so

I do not have the source to the existing library. I could get it but getting a full build environment with the necessary dependencies in place would be a lot of effort for what seems like a simple problem.

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