Re: [PATCH] Fix linking for not-so-clever linkers.

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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On one of my systems, the linker is not intelligent enough to link with
pager.o (in libgit.a) when only the variable pager_in_use is needed. The
consequence is that the linker complains about an undefined
variable.

I do not understand this quite yet -- which executable is your
linker building when it does this?

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Maybe we need ranlib?

Shouldn't be needed, since we use "$(AR) rcs",...
... After all, that was the 
whole reason environment.c ended up existing in the first place..

Understood and agreed to everything you said.

But I still wonder why/how it happens in Johannes's
environment...