Linking Issue

[Geoff the Medio]

Reported on sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/p/freeorion/bugs/566/

[vincele]

Seems related to issues talked about in there

[Dilvish]

Seems related to issues talked about in there

I'm not sure what portion of that discussion you're referring to (unless simply the broad idea that the optimized libraries wind up much smaller than the debug libraries). It seems to me that this issue stems totally from the fact that since libfreeorioncommon.so is not intended as a general purpose shared library we have been content to rely on the fact that all our executables would also be linked with libfreeorionparse.so and so had not been linking libfreeorioncommon.so with libfreeorionparse.so.

It's also my impression that it's actually Mageia's default flag -Wl,--no-undefined that is triggering this error rather than -Wl,--as-needed

Anyway, I'm probably just writing here from some urge to post moreso than a true contribution of expertise; I'll be glad to leave the response on this issue to Marcel.

[adrian_broher]

It's also my impression that it's actually Mageia's default flag -Wl,--no-undefined that is triggering this error rather than -Wl,--as-needed

You're probably right. common and parse are circular referencing to each other. Adding -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined for common should fix this.