Re: 4.0.41 make error

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the report.
Can gcc invoke the linker with an option to permit that situation?
I won't be able to look at this for a couple weeks.

Matt Schalit <address@hidden> wrote:
| Hi Jim,
|
| I'm still getting the libfetish/linker error.
|
| I had a chance to reinstall gcc 2.95.2.1 that I built
| --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld.
|
| Then I tried to build 4.0.41 with either gcc or cc.
|
| The build with cc worked but gcc didn't.
|
| For what it's worth, I had to add LIBS="-lsocket -lnsl"
| so that configure would find gethostbyname and some other
| functions that exist if both those libs are thrown
| together.  I don't know whether those functions are
| really used, but I thought I'd be sure that they were
| available.
|
| Here's what I did with gcc and the error I saw,
| probably the same one you identified a couple of
| weeks ago.
|
| LIBS="-lsocket -lnsl" ./configure --disable-nls > con.log 2>&1
| gmake
| ------------------------------------------------------
| gcc  -g -O2   -o chgrp  chgrp.o chown-core.o ../lib/libfetish.a -lintl -lgen 
-lsocket -lnsl
| /usr/ccs/lib/libc.so(opt_data.n)(.data+0xc): multiple definition of `optopt'
| 
../lib/libfetish.a(getopt.o):/home/matthew/Uber/Dev/fileutils-4.0.41/lib/getopt.c:217:
 first defined here
| /usr/ccs/lib/libc.so(opt_data.n)(.data+0x8): multiple definition of `optind'
| 
../lib/libfetish.a(getopt.o):/home/matthew/Uber/Dev/fileutils-4.0.41/lib/getopt.c:217:
 first defined here
| /usr/ccs/lib/libc.so(opt_data.n)(.data+0x4): multiple definition of `opterr'
| 
../lib/libfetish.a(getopt.o):/home/matthew/Uber/Dev/fileutils-4.0.41/lib/getopt.c:217:
 first defined here
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| gmake[2]: *** [chgrp] Error 1
| gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/matthew/Uber/Dev/fileutils-4.0.41/src'
| gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matthew/Uber/Dev/fileutils-4.0.41'
| gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
| ----------------------------------------------------------
|
|
| I went ahead and installed the cc version of 4.0.41, and
| we'll see how it goes.