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From: "Barry Friedman" <friedman@nortel.ca>
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Subject: Re: No -lPW please
To: mrb@Eng.Sun.COM
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: neal@ctd.comsat.com, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Reply-To: "Barry Friedman" <friedman@nortel.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199707220103.SAA14316@xemacs.eng.sun.com> from "Martin Buchholz" at Jul 21, 97 06:03:58 pm
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Martin Buchholz wrote:
> HP Guys & Gals, I'd like you to take ownership of this problem.  It's
> hard for me to deal with this without access to an appropriate system.
> 
> It seems really lame that the HP linker would complain about a
> duplicate symbol in a library.  Isn't the app always allowed to
> override symbols from libraries?

ld man page explictly states that duplicates cause link to fail.

> 
> Anyways, try this patch, and if possible, test with cc and gcc.
> 
[snip]   

Fails on both cc and gcc due to inclusion of -lPW outside of lib-src.

The test for gcc doesn't seem to do anything.  (i.e. -lPW still included)

