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=%28Sta... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLibraryChanges?highlight...