[H-GEN] redefined symbol errors with gcc.

[Martin Pool]

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Andrae Muys wrote:

> Ok, given the following two files and their attempted compilation:
> 
> [andrae at reynier test]$ cat multilink1.c
> int main () { }
> [andrae at reynier test]$ cat multilink2.c
> int main() { }
> [andrae at reynier test]$ gcc -c multilink*.c
> [andrae at reynier test]$ gcc -o multilink multilink*.o
> multilink2.o: In function `main':
> multilink2.o(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `main'
> multilink1.o(.text+0x0): first defined here
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> [andrae at reynier test]$
> 
> Does anyone know what compile options I can pass to gcc to force this to
> succeed?  

Well, that seems to work OK if one of them is a library, so.. make one a
library, perhaps, or do `gcc -v' to see how the linker is called when
one is a library?  Dunno.

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