Garrick Staples wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:00:13PM +1300, Clint Dilks alleged:
Hi People
I am trying to build a piece of software from source in this case aide
0.13.1 using this config line ./configure --with-zlib --with-selinux.
The configure step completes but there is a Warning that concerns me.
This is taken from config.log
configure:9809: checking for mhash_get_block_size in -lmhash
configure:9844: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -static -static conftest.c
-lmhash -lz >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmhash
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The '-static' means that the linker needs to find a static library archive to
create a static executable. That means it wants to find /usr/lib/libmhash.a.
Without the '-static', it would look for the shared library, libmhash.so.
The mhash-devel package doesn't contain libmhash.a, so your test linking fails.
It has been fedora/upstream policy for while to discourage the packaging of
static archive files. I'm sure the Fedora wiki has a page explaining why, but
I'm too lazy to find it right now.
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Thanks, that was it. :)
For those who might be interested this is link from Fedora Wiki that
offers some incite
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLinkage?highlight=%28Static%29
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLibraryChanges?highlight=%28Static%29
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