Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:06:47 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Justin Hopper" <jhopper@spry.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mysterious problem with ldconfig and ld Message-ID: <004001c2b3a6$b3c4fe10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <1041652526.27245.29.camel@home.gusalmighty.com>
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> This may be a very simple fix, but so far I've found no solution. Just > installed expat-1.95.5 in a FreeBSD 4.4 machine. The install went fine, > and I verified that ldconfig had picked up the library: > > host# ldconfig -r | grep expat > 73:-lexpat.4 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4 > > However, I need to install other packages that require the expat > library, and the configuration fails stating that the expat library > cannot be found. In fact, just a simple test fails: > > host# ld -lexpat > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lexpat How about ld -L/usr/local/lib -lexpat? Works fine here: gabby# ld -L /usr/local/lib -lexpat /usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `memmove' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `memcpy' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `malloc' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `realloc' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `memset' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `free' gabby# If some programs can't find it, it's probably because /usr/local/lib isn't in their search path. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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