From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix linking for not-so-clever linkers.
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:48:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlkr19lmr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607101429460.5623@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:34:42 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 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?
>> 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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 11:40 [PATCH] Fix linking for not-so-clever linkers Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-10 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-10 21:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-10 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-07-10 23:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
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