The recursive_init_error class is defined in a header, with an inline
constructor, but the definition of the vtable and destructor are not
exported from the shared library. With -fkeep-inline-functions the
constructor gets emitted in user code, and requires the (non-exported)
vtable. This fails to link.
As far as I can tell, the recursive_init_error class definition was
moved into <cxxabi.h> so it could be documented with Doxygen, not for
any technical reason. But now it's there (and documented), somebody
could be relying on it, by catching that type and possibly performing
derived-to-base conversions to the std::exception base class. So the
conservative fix is to leave the class definition in the header but make
the constructor non-inline. This still allows the type to be caught and
still defines its base class.
Backport from mainline
2019-07-29 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
PR libstdc++/51333
* libsupc++/cxxabi.h (__gnu_cxx::recursive_init_error): Do not define
constructor inline.
* libsupc++/guard_error.cc (__gnu_cxx::recursive_init_error): Define
constructor.
* testsuite/18_support/51333.cc: New test.