loader error, uninstall fails

[Frank J. R. Hanstick]

Hello,
	If memory serves me correctly, Darwin's preferred library is the  
dynamic library and if these two contain the same modules one as  
static and one as dynamic, then is it possible to not reference the  
static on a Darwin build?
Frank

On Oct 20, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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.
>