[Clfs-support] Cross-Compile Tools -- ncurses cannot find -ldl

[Roy Bekken]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Joe Ciccone<jciccone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Roy Bekken wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Joe Ciccone<jciccone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Could you please run this test and send the results?
>>>
>>> echo "int main() {}" | gcc -ldl -x c - -v -Wl,-verbose
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>> I tried the command in both the clfs build environment as as my normal
>> user, output was identical.
>>
> The output you provided looks good, it compiled successfully.
>
> Lets try this,
>
> cd /mnt/clfs/tools/build/ncurses-5.7/ncurses
> gcc ../objects/tic.o ../objects/dump_entry.o -s -I../progs -I.
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG
> -I/cross-tools/include/ncurses -O2 --param max-inline-insns-single=1200
> -static -L../lib -lncurses -L../lib -lncurses -dynamic -ldl -o tic -v
> -Wl,--verbose
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OK, the command revealed that libdl.a was missing. Turns out that
fedora have a package glibc-static that I didn't know about, I have
now installed that and now its builds fine.

Thanks for your help.
	Roy