[Help-gnutls] Re: duplicate symbols complaint on Mac OS X 10.5.2

[Simon Josefsson]

ludo at gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> writes:
>
>> ludo at gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm still not sure whether this is a guile or gnutls problem.  Before
>>>> making changes in gnutls to override gnulib's gnu99 default, or adding
>>>> thinks like -fgnu89-inline, I want to understand the problem better.
>>>> Adding workarounds like that is easy to do, but years later the
>>>> workaround often start to cause new problems and it will be difficult to
>>>> know what to do.  (Compare the -D_REENTRANT flag..)
>
> BTW, `-fgnu89-inline' will always be needed for the GnuTLS Guile code
> anyway, because even if we fix it in Guile and GMP, there will always be
> people trying to compile GnuTLS with a version of Guile and/or GMP that
> doesn't have the fix.
>
>> Or ask Apple to fix their compiler.  Isn't it possible to build gcc on
>> mac os x manually?  Then it wouldn't have this problem, I guess.
>
> I suppose there won't be any problem when they ship their OS with GCC
> 4.3 but in the meantime, we either have to implement the above fix or to
> impede our software's portability as a sign of disagreement with Apple's
> silliness.  I guess it's easier to stick to the former.  ;-)

Right.

> (Of course, another option is to not build GnuTLS in C99 mode...)

We'll see what my question on the gnulib list leads too..

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-04/msg00079.html

/Simon