Re: [PATCH v3] config.mak.uname: avoid macOS dup-library warning

From: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2026, 20:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CALnO6CAgNdkg0PnN9Zy=zLurLUSb2hUXYAGe_qB0oceZNy_=gg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv7bei2tf.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 6:27 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
> >
> > Building on macOS with Xcode 15 or newer emits:
> >
> >     ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: 'libgit.a',
> >     'target/release/libgitcore.a'
> >
> > Some link recipes list the same archive twice, which is harmless.
> > Quiet the warning instead.
> >
> > Pass -Wl,-no_warn_duplicate_libraries on Xcode 15 and newer, whose
> > linkers added both the warning and the suppression flag (ld64-907
> > and dyld-1009). Earlier linkers reject the flag, so gate on the
> > linker version. Broaden the existing -fno-common version probe to
> > also match the "ld64-NNN" and "dyld-NNN" forms Xcode 15 reports.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
> > ---
>
> Yeah, this looks like what I expected.
>
> A few things to note.
>
>  * Can folks with different versions of Xcode (or is 15 sufficiently
>    old that practically nobody is expected to have anything older?)
>    test this patch?
>
>  * We only patch Makefile here; can folks who use meson report how
>    well your build goes?
>
> Thanks.

On one (old) machine I have available:

    $ pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
    [trimmed]
    version: 14.2.0.0.1.1668646533

On said machine, I don't get the duplicate warnings on a Meson build. No issues with the patch when running make.

I think I have seen this on my other machine, which is much newer. When I get around to trying it there, I'll report back as well.