From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:01:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix linking for not-so-clever linkers.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607110059020.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v64i5b1am.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

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?

The problem arises for the first time with git-blame. (Have not checked 
which other executables might be affected.)

> Maybe we need ranlib?

Does not help. pager.o is in libgit.a. Still, Darwin's linker does not 
want to link to pager.o (probably because no function from pager.o is 
called, so this is a real bug in the Darwin linker -- but being easy to 
fix, I think it is worthwhile to fix it).

Ciao,
Dscho