[lxc-devel] Duplicate definitions of `lxc_log_define`

[Ciprian Dorin, Craciun]

    Hy all!

    Yesterday I've played around with LXC containers, and I've wanted
to statically build the lxc tools.

    While doing this (after messing with the `Makefile.am` from
`src/lxc` to replace the `.so` with a `.a`), I've hit the following
problem: in most `.c` files belonging to the applications (like
`lxc_start.c`), there is a definition (that I'm assuming creates an
exportable function) like: `lxc_log_define(lxc_start, lxc);`, but the
same definition is also found in the library `.c` files (like
`start.c`), which reads exactly the same.

    Now I assume that when dynamically linking the executables no
conflict is found, but when statically linking them I get multiple
definitions errors.

    I've fixed this by adding a `_` at the end of the name in the
`lxc_*.c` files, like: `lxc_log_define(lxc_start_, lxc);`

    So if anyone has time to look this up would be nice.

    Thanks,
    Ciprian.

    P.S.: Could you also consider adding the option to statically
build the tools? (My need for them is for an minimal Linux
distribution that would only bootstrap the containers, and I would
prefer to have the binaries self-contained and not to bother about
missing `.so`.)