Re: Re: Why is --allow-multiple-definition used for the v1 MinGW toolset?

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-06 13:53:58

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out why --allow-multiple-definition is used
>>> with MinGW, and all I can find on the subject is this:
>>>
>>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01373.html
>>
>> To clarify: that's all I can find relating to Boost
>> and --allow-multiple-definition.
>
> Don't know, even if I wrote some of that file... That particular
> change was done by John and says:
>
> Added -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition to link line so that regex dll
> will link - may also effect other libraries.
>
>
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/tools/build/v1/mingw-tools.jam?rev=1.19&view=markup
> http://tinyurl.com/c23ut

I guess I should have dug through the revision history myself. Thanks!

Jonathan