When -lbz2 is written before libsemanage.a in the linker command line, the linker may fail to find all needed symbols. This occurs for example when building on Ubuntu 14.04 without the gold linker (cf. Travis build result https://travis-ci.org/fishilico/selinux/builds/245072498): gcc libsemanage-tests.o test_semanage_store.o test_utilities.o utilities.o -L/home/travis/build/fishilico/selinux/installdir/usr/lib -o libsemanage-tests -lcunit -lbz2 -laudit ../src/libsemanage.a -lselinux -lsepol ../src/libsemanage.a(direct_api.o): In function `bzip': direct_api.c:(.text+0xee6): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzWriteOpen' direct_api.c:(.text+0xf11): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzWriteClose' direct_api.c:(.text+0xf79): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzWrite' direct_api.c:(.text+0xfa1): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzWriteClose' direct_api.c:(.text+0xfe0): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzWriteClose' ../src/libsemanage.a(direct_api.o): In function `bunzip': direct_api.c:(.text+0x114e): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzReadOpen' direct_api.c:(.text+0x1249): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzRead' direct_api.c:(.text+0x13b4): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzReadClose' ../src/libsemanage.a(seusers_local.o): In function `semanage_seuser_audit': seusers_local.c:(.text+0x4c5): undefined reference to `audit_open' seusers_local.c:(.text+0x5b6): undefined reference to `audit_log_semanage_message' seusers_local.c:(.text+0x5cd): undefined reference to `audit_close' As ../src/libsemanage.a is a dependency of $(EXECUTABLE) in the Makefile, use $^ to include it in the command line. While at it, put $^ after $(LDFLAGS) as other Makefiles do. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@xxxxxxx> --- libsemanage/tests/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libsemanage/tests/Makefile b/libsemanage/tests/Makefile index fcd616fabf52..2ef8d30d92af 100644 --- a/libsemanage/tests/Makefile +++ b/libsemanage/tests/Makefile @@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ SOURCES = $(sort $(wildcard *.c)) EXECUTABLE = libsemanage-tests CFLAGS += -g -O0 -Wall -W -Wundef -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-unused-parameter override CFLAGS += -I../src -I../include -override LDLIBS += -lcunit -lbz2 -laudit ../src/libsemanage.a -lselinux -lsepol +override LDLIBS += -lcunit -lbz2 -laudit -lselinux -lsepol OBJECTS = $(SOURCES:.c=.o) all: $(EXECUTABLE) $(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJECTS) ../src/libsemanage.a - $(CC) $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(LDLIBS) + $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^ $(LDLIBS) clean distclean: rm -rf $(OBJECTS) $(EXECUTABLE) -- 2.13.1