Re: Strange compiler warnings with heatbugs

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "JK" == Jan Kreft <address@hidden> writes:

JK> I know, that's not what I meant. I was suggesting to change the
JK> file in the tarball hosted on the SFI site in order to make live
JK> easier for those who will download this package in the future.

Ok, I've put up a patch for Linux-based systems:

  ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/needed-software/hdf5-1.0.1-linux.diffs

It fixes another compilation problem for glibc-2.1 based systems
(e.g. Redhat 6).

Although it is a small thing to make a new tar-ball of HDF5, I just
don't want to go down that road.  See, binary distributions are one
thing, but distributing variant sources just encourages folks to be
superstitious and grab stuff from SFI, forgetting that these packages
actually have maintainers.

We would like to have the resources to insulate users from the fact
that Swarm is made up of components, and we try, but as a public
service we can only go so far.  If folks want more, I suggest
you contact Swarm Corporation <address@hidden>.  Failing that, send
me e-mail.  We'll work something out.  ;-)

JK> /home/jan/swarm-1.4.1/lib/libtkobjc.a(ButtonPanel.o): warning:
JK> multiple common of `globalTkInterp'

MD>  Try putting "extern " in front of "id <TkExtra> globalInterp" in
MD> src/tkobjc/global.h and re-installing that module.  This looks to
MD> me like a bug in the version of GNU ld that is distributed with
MD> SuSE (it doesn't happen to me on Solaris 2.7 or slink Debian).

JK> Hm, this didn't fix it. Any other suggestions?

With that patch if you run this from your src/tkobjc build area, you
should just one line:

  $ for i in *.lo; do out=`nm $i | grep '[^U] globalTkInterp'`; if test -n 
"$out" ; then echo -- $i -- ; echo $out ; fi ; done 

  00000004 C globalTkInterp 

Do you?  Did you double check by cleaning the directory before the rebuild?

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