Re: Link failure on systems lacking mkstemp

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello, Eli,

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.

Apologies for the lack of response!

Thank you,
Ludo’.