[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Meaney wrote:
> I had the same issue with my installation of Fedora 3.  I've figured out 
>  that it seems to be due to having the same local string constants in 
> two functions.  I've attached a patch that fixes the compilation/linking 
> problem but I think this might be a compiler problem.

It sure sounds like one - if GCC can't handle multiple instances of the 
same string constant, it's rather badly broken, as that's perfectly 
legitimate C.

Do you have a simple program that demonstrates it?  If so, has the bug 
been reported to the Fedora maintainers?  (I don't know whether the bug 
is part of standard GCC or the result of an RH "improvement".)