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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?

Maybe we need ranlib?