[Insight-users] rPoly.c : an OS X dynamic library issue after vxl update in ITK 1.6.0

[Brad King]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, hui zhang wrote:

> rPoly.c was updated as part of vxl 2003-12-15 update.  On the line 13,
> the new version dropped the "static" keyword to the common block struct
> defintion.  now it will fail to produce a shared library of itknetlib,
> with the following error:
>
> ld: common symbols not allowed with MH_DYLIB output format with the
> -multi_module option
> rpoly.o definition of common _global_ (size 4232)
> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
> make[1]: *** [/Volumes/swap/tmp/huiz/ITKBuild/bin/libitknetlib.dylib]
> Error 1
>
> The error disappears if restoring the "static" keyword.  alternatively,
> you can add -single_module option to the shared library command.

I've put the static keyword back, and this time I contributed the change
back to vxl proper so it will not be a problem again.

Thanks,
-Brad