On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 11:17:03AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 04:13:12AM -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 10:47:11AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 10:41:51AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 03:19:17AM -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > > ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: '-lxml2'
> > >
> > > There's a similarish warning reported against homebew
> > >
> > >
https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/4794
> >
> > Actually I think it is more mundane and a stupid warning:
> >
> > % gcc c.c -lxml2
> >
> > % gcc c.c -lxml2 -lxml2
> > ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: '-lxml2'
> >
> > oooooh soo many projects have the same -lXXX repeated mamy times when
> > building, as build systems don't make it easy to merge duplicates.
> > Warning about this is madness :-(
>
> Yeah I really don't see the point, seems like it's there just to be
> annoying :(
We can turn it off with:
-Wl,-no_warn_duplicate_libraries
but need to probe for whether that option exists or not.
https://indiestack.com/2023/10/xcode-15-duplicate-library-linker-warnings/
Laine, can you please cook up a patch for this?
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization