More info: the problem is due to a bug in an update to flex in the Fedora Core 4 distro. The flex-2.5.4a-35.fc4, released Friday the 13th (appropriately enough) causes this problem. An updated package, flex-2.5.4a-36.fc4, fixes it.
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 13:11 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote: > Thanks. That's what open source is all about. > > -Joseph > > ============================================================================== > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:30 -0500, Frank Solensky wrote: > > Sorry: Linux; Fedora 4 distro, kernel 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4. > > > > Once the full build finished on my machine I'll submit the bug and a > > patch to gcalctool, cc'ing you on it. > > > > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 11:33 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote: > > > Which OS??? > > > > > > ================================================================ > > > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 09:12 -0500, Frank Solensky wrote: > > > > I'm running into a problem building gcalctool in garnome 2.3.15. > > > > > > > > libparser.a(lex.lr.o)(.text+0xe00): In function > > > > > > > > _yy_dummy_uses_of_static_functions_b2f4_517d_02ff_b30c_3e5a_47d7_aaa3_3b5d_': > > > > /home/fsolensky/gnome/garnome-2.13.5/desktop/gcalctool/ > > > > work/main.d/gcalctool-5.7.26/gcalctool/lex.lr.c:1854: > > > > multiple definition of > > > > `_yy_dummy_uses_of_static_functions_b2f4_517d_02ff_b30c_3e5a_47d7_aaa3_3b5d_' > > > > libparser.a(lex.ce.o)(.text+0xe30):/home/fsolensky/gnome/garnome-2.13.5/desktop/gcalctool/ > > > > work/main.d/gcalctool-5.7.26/gcalctool/lex.ce.c:1887: first defined > > > > here > > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > make[4]: *** [gcalctool] Error 1 > > > > > > > > It's an attempt to avoid a warning message when compiling a > > > > lex-generated source file. It accomplishes this by replacing it with a > > > > link error message when the same function shows up in two different > > > > source files. > > > > > > > > In case anyone else has run into this: changing the routine in either of > > > > the source files to an "extern" works around it well enough for the > > > > build to continue. > > > > -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
