From: colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp (Colin Peters) Subject: RE: strange linker messages 10 May 1997 10:51:01 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC5D5E.8AFBD480.cygnus.gnu-win32@gbird0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'Carl H. Sayres'" Original-Cc: "'GNU-Win32'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Carl H. Sayres[SMTP:chs11@columbia.edu] wrote: >I'm getting the following liker messages which I don't understand. >(I have no impure.c or _impure_ptr anywhere in my code!) >Can soemone explain this to me? Thanks a bunch. > >$ cc -O2 -c sblat2.c >$ cc sblat2.o ../../blas_alpha.a ../../F2CLIBS/libI77.a \ >../../F2CLIBS/libF77.a -lm -lc -o ../xblat2s > >C:\usr\GNU\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\i386-cygwin32\cygnus-2.7.2- >970404\../../../../i386-cygwin32\lib/libcygwin.a >(libccrt0.o)(.data+0x0):libccrt0.cc: multiple definition of `_impure_ptr' > >C:\usr\GNU\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\i386-cygwin32\cygnus-2.7.2- >970404\../../../../i386-cygwin32\lib/libc.a(impure.o)(.data+0x2ec):impure.c: >first defined here If I'm not mistaken the problem here is -lc on your link command line. You don't need to link libc directly since it is already part of libcygwin, which gets linked automatically. Just a guess. Colin. PS. Question to GNU-Win32 crowd: Is this also true of libm... or not? -- Colin Peters - colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp -- Saga University Dept. of Information Science -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/index.html -- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".