Strange undefined refernce error

[Ross A Luhmann]

Hello,

  I received a very bizzare error during linking, however Im not sure if
it is a problem with the linker (although I think it might be) or the
compiler.  I also do not know if this is a bug with the compiler, linker,
or something I am doing incorrectly.  If I reorder the way everything
is linked I do not get the error but I get other undefined references
which are just because things are being linked in the wrong order.

Here is what I get:

kernel/vars/liblobkvar.a(var_tables.o)(.data+0xab8): undefined reference 
to `new( ()[)'


Which is very strange because even if ther ehad been a function called
new( ()[) the compiler should have caught that.  I can not release the
source to the program unfortunately however if there is a small fragment
of code I might be able to give that up.  I know I am using an older
version of the compiler but since Im still mostly on libc5 I dont want to
upgrade everything.

This is what Im using:

linux slackware 4.0
libc-5.4.44
ld-2.9.1
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
automake 1.4
autoconv 2.13
libtool 1.2


I have all of my source files split up into multiple directories and every
directory is compiled into a static library.  I then have all of the
libraries linked together to form the executable.  Thank you.


						Ross Luhmann