Re: Guile 1.9.14 & GIT version linking errror

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi!

Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com> writes:

> On 16 Jan 2011, at 11:18, Neil Jerram wrote:
>
>>>> ... when I try to install guile-1.9.14, I get the error below (Mac
>>>> OS X 10.5.8 PPC G4).
>>>>
>>>> ld: duplicate symbol ___gmpz_abs in .libs/libguile_2.0_la-arbiters.o
>>>> and .libs/libguile_2.0_la-alist.o
>>>
>>> And I get the same error when using GIT.
> ...
>> - understand why it is being _defined_ twice, as opposed to just
>>  declared
>
> You have added the flag gcc -std=gnu99, which according to the gmp.h
> header in GCC 4.3 later implements ISO C99 inline semantics, unless - 
> fgnu89-inline is used. When I took away that flag from the five
> occurrences in the Makefile in libguile/, then it compiled and
> installed.

That’s probably the problem that’s documented in libguile/inline.h (see
below).

> I have GCC 4.0.1.

No you don’t.  This is Apple’s compiler, based on GCC, but with its own
inline semantics, and a behavior different from that of GCC.

Anyway you found a workaround, which is what matters.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.