Re: [PATCH] Fix linking for not-so-clever linkers.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jul 10, 2006, 21:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlkr19lmr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607101429460.5623@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On one of my systems, the linker is not intelligent enough to link with
>> > pager.o (in libgit.a) when only the variable pager_in_use is needed. The
>> > consequence is that the linker complains about an undefined
>> > variable.
>> 
>> I do not understand this quite yet -- which executable is your
>> linker building when it does this?

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>> Maybe we need ranlib?
>
> Shouldn't be needed, since we use "$(AR) rcs",...
> ... After all, that was the 
> whole reason environment.c ended up existing in the first place..

Understood and agreed to everything you said.

But I still wonder why/how it happens in Johannes's environment...