There could be at least a couple different problems. First, are you sure there's a static version of libnewt there? If so, it may be that the program you are compiling was not properly set up for static linking. Normally, if the developer is just thinking about dynamic linking, they often don't worry about the order that libraries are specified on the link command line, which is fine for dynamic linking. However, when linking statically, order does matter, and each library needs to appear on the command line after everything else that uses that library (even other libraries), or the symbols defined in that library will not get found properly. It's possible that in your case, libnewt is specified too early on the command line and simply needs to be moved to the end. Good luck, Lyle -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mansour Al-Aqeel Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 7:06 AM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: LDFLAGS -static Hi every body: I'm having a problem configuring a program for a static compilation. I'm using the command LDFLAGS="--static -I/usr/lib" CC="diet gcc -nostdinc" ./configure \ --prefix=~/result --disable-shared --enable-all-static --disable-nls how ever i keet on getting an error complainig about the need for libnewt. the library is there. I installed it from rpm packages with it's devel package. I've tried adding CPPFLAGS="-L/usr/include" I've tried searching the archieve before asking. any advice about how to solve this, or a place where I can get more about this situation ?? but no luck. I'm using redhat 7.3 By the way, I'm not an expert in compiling and linking . Thanx alot. -- Mansour Al-Aqeel mansour77@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service
