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?
Yeah, I think I see how that's done. I need to take the dog for a walk
first though :-)