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Re: Failed linking gettext-0.18
On 8/6/2010 4:20 AM, Markus Moeller wrote:
Can you tell me what the error means and what I can do to fix it ?
Thank you
Markus
"Charles Wilson" <xxx@xxx.xxx> wrote in message
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And please don't top-post:
A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
It's complicated. The upstream maintainer of gettext REALLY dislikes a
mechanism used for symbol resolution by the GNU toolchain (gcc/ld) with
DLLs on mingw and cygwin: "auto-import". So, he arranges that gettext
is always compiled with --disable-auto-import.
However, recent versions of g++'s runtime library, libstdc++, ITSELF,
require auto-import when linking IIUC. Hence, boom.
I'm not sure this is easily fixed. IF I am correct, there are two
options: (1) teach g++ how to build a libstdc++ DLL that exports symbols
"properly" rather than requiring auto-import. This depends on a new
cygwin g++ compiler I think. OR, (2) override the build procedure for
gettext to ensure that --enable-auto-import is provided on every link
command, AFTER the "default" gettext setting of --disable-auto-import.
IIRC, just setting LDFLAGS before configuring won't do it, because Bruno
*deliberately* arranged things to make overriding his desired
auto-import behavior difficult.
--
Chuck
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