Agreed - it was only supposed to run for developer builds
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 7:14 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com>
> wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that this warning script only ran for developer
> builds. But it looks like it's unconditionally run at the end of "make
> install" (on master only -- so far).
>
> Should we make this only run for developer builds? (e.g., check for
> $srcdir/.git, or somesuch) I think it's our goal to have zero common
> symbols, but that may not always be the case, and we don't want this
> potentially alarming warning showing up for users, right?
>
>
>> On Apr 19, 2016, at 11:14 PM, dpchoudh . <dpcho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you very much, Gilles. Declaring globals as static indeed fixed it,
>> even without initialization (some are complicated structures, so
>> initializing at declaration is not easy.)
>>
>> Best regards
>> Durga
>>
>> 1% of the executables have 99% of CPU privilege!
>> Userspace code! Unite!! Occupy the kernel!!!
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet <gil...@rist.or.jp>
>> wrote:
>> This is just a warning.
>>
>> there are some potential issues with uninitialized common symbols, but i
>> cannot remember the details.
>>
>> bottom line, they should be avoided :
>> - declare global variables as static if the scope is only one source file
>> - always initialize global variables
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gilles
>>
>>
>> On 4/20/2016 11:48 AM, dpchoudh . wrote:
>>> Hello all
>>>
>>> While doing a 'make install' with some additional code written by me, I get
>>> the following message:
>>> WARNING! Common symbols found:
>>> Doing a search on previous mails, I found the following thread that is
>>> pertinent:
>>> https://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2015/04/17220.php
>>>
>>> However, I could not find out exactly what this warning/error is trying to
>>> tell me: is there a multiple definition of a global symbol? (that should be
>>> an error, not a warning, right?)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Durga
>>>
>>> 1% of the executables have 99% of CPU privilege!
>>> Userspace code! Unite!! Occupy the kernel!!!
>>>
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