[clug] compiling problem

[David Collett]

Hi,
Distro's typically include static libs in the "dev" package, on my box
(ubuntu) /usr/lib/libc.a comes from "libc6-dev". The dev package is
probably not installed by default, but should be easy enough to
install.

Dave



On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:06:30PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> It seems that on your system, static libc is not installed. If installed, it
> would be called libc.a and reside in /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64 on a 64-bit
> system). It would be a *big* file:
> 
>  21:48:39$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libc.* /usr/lib64/libc_nonshared.a
>  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 66473442 2006-05-21 11:31 /usr/lib64/libc.a
>  -rw-r--r--  1 root root      210 2006-05-21 11:31 /usr/lib64/libc.so
>  -rw-r--r--  1 root root    85288 2006-05-21 11:31 /usr/lib64/libc_nonshared.a
> 
> libc_nonshared.a complements /lib/libc.so.n as can be seen from the contents of
> /usr/lib64/libc.so:
> 
>  21:49:16$ cat /usr/lib64/libc.so
>  /* GNU ld script
>     Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
>     the static library, so try that secondarily.  */
>  OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf64-x86-64)
>  GROUP ( /lib64/libc.so.6 /usr/lib64/libc_nonshared.a )
> 
> It's optional to build static libc when building glibc, looks like the authors
> of your distro chose not to do it.
> 
> Building glibc from source is possible but not popular with the maintainers. The
> config directives have to be just right, or it won't work in my experience.
> Post again if you want to try it.
> 
> Cheers ... Duncan.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:37:48PM +1100, Adrian Blake wrote:
> > I am trying to compile someone else's software and I get the following
> > error. In this instance I cannot fathom what path to take to resolve the
> > problem.
> >
> > error:
> >
> > after many warnings...
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> >
> >   the compiling direction is:
> > gcc -static -O2 -g -Wall decreasoner.c -o decreasoner
> >
> > Just this one line
> >
> >
> > Adrian
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