[Ed Meaney <emeaney@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy,

I'm working on a simple test to confirm the problem, and no, I haven't 
reported it to the Fedora team as yet.  I wanted to be sure I understood 
the issue, and I really just wanted to get my ethereal tree rebuilt.

-Ed

Guy Harris wrote:
> 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".)
>
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