Re: duplicate symbols and -frepo on AIX 4.2

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <XFMail.980206012242.pooh@msu.net>you write:
  > The problem is because tlink part of collect2 doesn't recognize AIX linker
  > diagnostic.
Do we still have this problem?  (is -frepo even useful on AIX?).

  > You can try a small patch (attached) but other systems
  > (e.g. FreeBSD) have similar problems.
Yes.  And putting lots of system specific conditionals in tlink.c
isn't the right way to fix the problem :-)

  > IMHO, the best way to solve
  > such kind of problems is to use regular expressions to define
  > linker diagnostic patterns. I already wrote about this some time ago,
  > but didn't saw any responce...
I don't remember this, but it's quite likely it got lost in much
of the other aix/collect mail that went by a couple months ago.

Using regexps is probably the best solution.  Did you have a patch
for that or were you just suggesting it as a potential solution?

If we don't use regexps, then I would recommend we define some
sort of target macro to deal with this problem.

jeff