[dtardon at redhat.com: Re: windows and mergedlibs - help with debugging makefile]

[Matúš Kukan]

Hi,

On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 13:16 +0100, David Tardon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:14:27AM +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
> > The Microsoft linker has an option /FORCE:MULTIPLE, which will basically ignore this error.
> >     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/70abkas3.aspx

Nice, I did not know about this..
I was just disabling tests ;-)

> Okay, that is for MSVC. How do other linkers cope with it? Has anyone
> tried to build with merged-libs on other platforms recently?

Sure, on Linux it ~works ~all the time :-)

> > But I would prefer to add it locally, and only in --enabled-merged-libs mode.
> > 
> > Is there a way I can do this in the
> >    connectivity/CppunitTest_connectivity_commontools.mk
> > file?

git grep MERGELIBS -- '*mk'
shows there are two more disabled in editeng/Module_editeng.mk and
xmloff/Module_xmloff.mk
Please fix also them if possible.

Thanks a lot for working on this. It should bring some nice improvements
I believe.

Matus