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emacs-23.1.96: problem, and workaround, on GNU/Linux Gentoo Alpha
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Nelson H. F. Beebe |
Subject: |
emacs-23.1.96: problem, and workaround, on GNU/Linux Gentoo Alpha |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:45:38 -0600 (MDT) |
A build of emacs-23.1.96 on
DEC Alphastation 200 4/100 (1 CPU, 100 MHz Alpha 21064 EV4, 128MB RAM)
GNU/Linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r7
initially failed like this in the final link of emacs:
/usr/local/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):(.sbss+0x0): multiple
definition of `UP'
terminfo.o:(.sbss+0x0): first defined here
/usr/local/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):(.sbss+0x8): multiple
definition of `BC'
terminfo.o:(.sbss+0x8): first defined here
/usr/local/lib/libncurses.a(lib_tputs.o):(.sbss+0x0): multiple
definition of `PC'
terminfo.o:(.sbss+0x10): first defined here
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Switching to /usr/lib/libcurses.{a,so} or /usr/lib/libncurses.{a,so}
did not help: the same multiple definitions remain.
I therefore made a small code modification
% diff terminfo.c~ terminfo.c
28c28
< char *UP, *BC, PC;
---
> extern char *UP, *BC, PC;
and restarted the build. That simple change produced a completely
successful build and installation.
I have seen the same problem with those three symbols in other
packages as well; it is not clear to me why on Alpha GNU/Linux one
gets the multiple-definition error, but not on other CPU
architectures. We run the same Gentoo versions on PowerPC and SPARC
systems, and no such problems are seen there.
With nm, I see these differences:
Alpha:
% nm /usr/lib/libcurses.a | egrep 'UP|BC|PC'
U PC
0000000000000008 S BC
U PC
0000000000000000 S UP
0000000000000000 S PC
PowerPC:
% nm /usr/lib/libcurses.a | egrep 'UP|BC|PC'
U PC
0000000000000008 B BC
U PC
0000000000000000 B UP
0000000000000008 B PC
SPARC:
% nm /usr/lib/libcurses.a | egrep 'UP|BC|PC'
U PC
00000004 B BC
U PC
00000000 B UP
00000000 B PC
Notice that their symbol type code is S on Alpha, and B on the other
two CPUs. From "man nm", the type codes are documented like this:
"B"
"b" The symbol is in the uninitialized data section (known as BSS).
"S"
"s" The symbol is in an uninitialized data section for small
objects.
Running "strings /usr/bin/ld | grep binutils" shows these package
origins:
Alpha binutils-2.18-r3
PowerPC binutils-2.19
SPARC binutils-2.18
Anyone care to speculate that the multiple-definition error might be a
GNU ld bug in the binutils distribution?
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