Re: Link failure on systems lacking mkstemp

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
> Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:53:27 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > Guile 2.0.11 has mkstemp.c in lib/, from Gnulib, and it also has its
> > own private version in libguile/.  This causes link failures on
> > systems, such as MinGW, that lack mkstemp in their system libraries:
> >
> >        CCLD     libguile-2.0.la
> >      ../lib/.libs/libgnu.a(mkstemp.o): In function `mkstemp':
> >      d:\gnu\guile-2.0.11\lib/mkstemp.c:48: multiple definition of `mkstemp'
> >      .libs/libguile_2.0_la-mkstemp.o:d:\gnu\guile-2.0.11\libguile/mkstemp.c:68: first defined here
> >      collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> >      Makefile:2242: recipe for target `libguile-2.0.la' failed
> >      make[3]: *** [libguile-2.0.la] Error 1
> >      make[3]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/guile-2.0.11/libguile'
> >      Makefile:2162: recipe for target `all' failed
> >
> > I think the solution is simply remove mkstemp.c from libguile/, and
> > all its traces from the configury that causes its dependency to be
> > added to libguile/Makefile.  Not sure how to do the latter, though.
> 
> I’m ashamed of the delay but hey, better late than never.
> 
> This bug was reported independently at <http://bugs.gnu.org/21425> and a
> fix was committed just yesterday, along the lines of what you suggested
> (see commit efd8a43.)  Let me know what you think.

Thanks, looks good.