Re: "object name conflicts in archive"

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paolo,

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:33:28AM CEST:
> A user has reported the following failure in GNU Smalltalk:

> libtool: link: object name conflicts in archive:  
> .libs/libgst.lax/library.a//e/Sources/smalltalk-3.2.1/libgst/../lib-src/.libs/library.a
>
> From the attached make.log I listed the files that should be in the  
> final archive and there are no conflicts:

> However, I also noticed this in the place where library.la is built:

> copying selected object files to avoid basename conflicts...

> So libtool finds a basename conflict even though there is none in the  
> list of files passed to it (and in fact there's no ln/cp command between  
> the "copying selected object files" line and the ar invocation.
>
> Any ideas?

Which system and coreutils is this?  'sort | sort -uc' is broken on
this system, it seems.  We probably need to check for this, and may
need to introduce a slower method of checking in that case.

Thanks for the report; I will try to look at the sysroot patch series
next weekend,
Ralf