See below an example how the build fails on FreeBSD-10.3-stable on amd64... The multiple definitions come from qt5-core, but other than that I don't have the foggiest idea why this happens. --- ../../bin/qdoc --- c++ -Wl,--as-needed -fstack-protector -Wl,--gc-sections -pthread -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/qt5 -o ../../bin/qdoc .obj/atom.o .obj/codechunk.o .obj/codemarker.o .obj/codeparser.o .obj/config.o .obj/cppcodemarker.o .obj/cppcodeparser.o .obj/doc.o .obj/editdistance.o .obj/generator.o .obj/helpprojectwriter.o .obj/htmlgenerator.o .obj/location.o .obj/main.o .obj/node.o .obj/openedlist.o .obj/plaincodemarker.o .obj/puredocparser.o .obj/qdocdatabase.o .obj/qdoctagfiles.o .obj/qdocindexfiles.o .obj/quoter.o .obj/separator.o .obj/text.o .obj/tokenizer.o .obj/tree.o .obj/yyindent.o .obj/jscodemarker.o .obj/qmlcodemarker.o .obj/qmlcodeparser.o .obj/qmlmarkupvisitor.o .obj/qmlvisitor.o -L/usr/ports/devel/qt5-qdoc/work/qttools-opensource-src-5.7.1/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/qt5 -lQt5QmlDevTools -lQt5Core /usr/local/lib/qt5/libQt5Core.so:(.data.rel.ro.local+0x27c28): multiple definition of `__bss_start@Qt_5' /usr/local/lib/qt5/libQt5Core.so:(.data.rel.ro.local+0x27c28): first defined here /usr/local/lib/qt5/libQt5Core.so:(.data.rel.ro.local+0x27c28): multiple definition of `_edata@Qt_5' /usr/local/lib/qt5/libQt5Core.so:(.data.rel.ro.local+0x27c28): first defined here /usr/local/lib/qt5/libQt5Core.so:(.data.rel.ro.local+0x2b3d8): multiple definition of `_end@Qt_5' c++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) *** [../../bin/qdoc] Error code 1 make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/qt5-qdoc/work/qttools-opensource-src-5.7.1/src/qdoc 1 error make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/qt5-qdoc/work/qttools-opensource-src-5.7.1/src/qdoc ===> Compilation failed unexpectedly. Try to set MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes and rebuild before reporting the failure to the maintainer. *** Error code 1
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 218187 ***