[BusyBox] Build Concern - Messages

[Jim Gifford]

I just was watching busybox pre 10 compile on my system and this kinda of
struck me as being odd.

My system is GCC 3.4.0, GLIBC 4-24-2004 w/nptl, with Kernel 2.6.5.

Here are the messages that I think are kinda of odd.

ar: creating libbb/libbb.a
gcc -s -Wl,-warn-common --static -o busybox -Wl,--start-group
./applets/applets.a ./archival/archival.a
./archival/libunarchive/libunarchive.a ./coreutils/coreutils.a
./console-tools/console-tools.a ./debianutils/debianutils.a
./editors/editors.a ./findutils/findutils.a ./init/init.a
./miscutils/miscutils.a ./modutils/modutils.a ./networking/networking.a
./networking/libiproute/libiproute.a ./networking/udhcp/udhcp.a
./procps/procps.a ./loginutils/loginutils.a ./shell/shell.a
./sysklogd/sysklogd.a ./util-linux/util-linux.a ./libpwdgrp/libpwdgrp.a
./coreutils/libcoreutils/libcoreutils.a ./libbb/libbb.a  -Wl,--end-group
./shell/shell.a(ash.o)(.text+0x4b09): In function `argstr':
: warning: Using 'getpwnam' in statically linked applications requires at
runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../../libc.a(dl-open.o): warning:
definition of `_dl_tls_static_size' overriding common
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.0/../../../libc.a(libc-tls.o): warning:
common is here


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Jim Gifford
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