Shared libraries linker error?

[Hans Buurman]

One user on a Sun 3/60 that has recently been upgraded to SunOS 4.0 was
complaining about a function dumping core that should not have been used
at all. It turned out that he had a function called select() in his
program.

One of the SunView routines he called (to initialize a panel) also used a
function called select(), which is in ndet_select.o in libsunwindow.a.  It
looks like the compiler had linked the sunwindow calls to select() to his
own program.

Now there is also a select() in libc.a (select.o). Why isn't that one
involved? Although to me it is clear which one is referred to in what
place, what rules does the linker use ?

Could somebody out there
a) tell me which rules the linker uses ?
b) guess where Sun screwed up ?

Thanks in advance,

	Hans

Disclaimer: any opinions above are my own.

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