Re: [Mingw-users] Weird linking problem (by example)

[Gisle V. <gv...@br...>]

"Commander Sirow" <com...@go...> wrote:

> $ nm libguile/.libs/libguile-2.0.a | grep scm_i_socket
>         U _scm_i_socket_errno
>         U _scm_i_socket_strerror
> - - - - - -
> states that those symbols should be in libguile-2.0.a, or am I reading
> something wrong here?

"U" means the symbol is undefined. You should have had a "T" here
(symbols in text-section. Ref. "man nm").

Those symbols are in libguile/win32-socket.c. What lib is that part
of? Browsing the guile sources gav me no clue. 

Oh wait. libguile/makefile.am defines a 
  EXTRA_libguile_@GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION@_la_SOURCES =
 .. win32-socket.c

Instead of simply having a "#ifndef WIN32" in win32-socket.c (surrounding
the whole file) the maintainers of this package chose to add this kludge.
Looks like yet another GNU project out of control....

--gv