Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	<nhv AT cape DOT com>
Cc:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin GCC linking Python extensions issue
References:	<EKEJIKAILPONGGENMBGAEEELDIAA DOT nhv AT cape DOT com>
From:	David Abrahams <dave AT boost-consulting DOT com>
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2003 09:47:42 -0400
In-Reply-To:	<EKEJIKAILPONGGENMBGAEEELDIAA.nhv@cape.com> (Norman Vine's
	message of "Fri, 23 May 2003 08:50:19 -0400")
Message-ID:	<u7k8hojup.fsf@boost-consulting.com>
User-Agent:	Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt)
MIME-Version:	1.0

"Norman Vine" <nhv AT cape DOT com> writes:

> David Abrahams writes:
>> 
>> Recently I've begun to see the following link errors when building
>> some of the Boost.Python test suite extension modules using Cygwin gcc
>> (version 2 or 3, doesn't matter) and Python 2.2.2 release or Python
>> 2.3 debug.  This error happens only on some of the extension modules,
>> but all of them use the symbol boost::python::scope::current_scope
>> which is defined in libboost_python.dll.  Regardless, even if that's
>> somehow my bug, there's the matter of `__head_boost_python_dll'...
>> 
>> Does anyone have an explanation/workaround for this?
>> 
>> 
>> d000000.o(.idata$2+0x0): multiple definition of 
>
>
> Tell the linker multiple definitions are allowed by adding
>  '-Wl,--allow-multiple-definition'   to your $LD_FLAGS

That's an interesting idea.  Still, I'd like to get to the bottom of
this.  Why would it think there are multiple definitions for these
symbol?  AFAICT, there are not.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -