loader error, uninstall fails

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Oct 20 20:19:20 PDT 2008


On Oct 20, 2008, at 17:59, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:

> 	Just on a lark, I tried porting on my Quicksilver (PowerPC G4) and
> got the same error though limited to __divdi3, __udivdi3, and
> __umoddi3.  I looked at the configuration and noticed that it is the
> same as described.  I had just updated from XCode 2.4.0 to XCode
> 2.4.5 so I know that I have the latest XCode for Tiger.  This does
> appear to be the same as #16728; but, that still begs the question of
> why I am trying to get the same definitions from two separate
> places.  What is the difference between  /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-
> darwin8/4.0.1/libgcc.a and /usr/lib/libgcc_s.10.4.dylib and are both
> intended to be stand alone libraries or are they suppose to work in
> tandem.  It they are to work in tandem, then there is a problem of
> having the same definition in both and if they are to work as
> standalone, then the build needs to select one or the other from
> known multiple definitions.

Well, .a is a static library and .dylib is a dynamic (shared) library.



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