Re: Suppressing --whole-archive

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Barthelemy von Haller wrote:
> The problem is that those two static libraries contain similar symbols 
> leading to a lot of errors such as
>
> /usr/lib/mysql/libz.a(adler32.o): In function `adler32':
> /data1/mysqldev/tmp-200707041150-5.0.45-27425/rpm/BUILD/mysql-5.0.45/zlib/adler32.c:61: 
> multiple definition of `adler32'
> /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(adler32.o):/data1/mysqldev/tmp-200707041150-5.0.45-27425/rpm/BUILD/mysql-5.0.45/zlib/adler32.c:61: 
> first defined here
>
> How can I remove this "-Wl,--whole-archive" which is put around the static 
> libraries ?

What do you expect the result of this change to be?  Will you be happy 
if it works for you, but not for many other people?

Note that even if the libraries are shared libraries, my experience is 
that the level of success is similar to betting at the horse races, or 
a visit to Las Vegas blackjack tables.  Depending on the operating 
systems involved, and order of execution, the similarly named symbol 
may be pulled from one library or the other at run time since DLL 
symbols are resolved upon first use.

Bob
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