Re: GIT version: missing linking flag

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 Jan 2011, at 16:20, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> > In 'guile-config link', the flag '-lgc' is missing; it is needed when
> > linking smobs. The function SCM_NEWSMOB calls
> > GC_register_finalizer_no_order() in header gc.h
>
> It shouldn’t be needed when libguile is a shared library, at least not
> on ELF platforms where the shared library contains ‘NEEDED’ headers.
>
> It is needed when libguile is static, but in that case you should use
> ‘pkg-config guile-2.0 --libs --static’ (‘guile-config’ is deprecated.)


The file gc.h says that it is only for Java implementations. But as  
noted above, it is called by SCM_NEWSMOB, so until it is taken away, - 
lgc must be used, otherwise the linker will require it. My platform is  
otherwise Mac OS X; objective code format is Mach-O.