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libbfd linking problems on Scientific Linux 5 systems #5089

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vicuna opened this issue Jun 28, 2010 · 3 comments
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libbfd linking problems on Scientific Linux 5 systems #5089

vicuna opened this issue Jun 28, 2010 · 3 comments
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vicuna commented Jun 28, 2010

Original bug ID: 5089
Reporter: bacam
Assigned to: @xavierleroy
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2012-03-24T14:01:45Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 3.12.0+beta1 or 3.12.0+rc1
Fixed in version: 3.12.0+beta1 or 3.12.0+rc1
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

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On Scientific Linux 5.4/5.5 systems (and so probably RHEL 5 too) the linking of objinfo_helper fails due to undefined references in libbfd. Adding -liberty to the linking options makes it work, although I couldn't find any documentation saying what the right way to link older copies of libbfd is.
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vicuna commented Jul 4, 2010

Comment author: sergstesh

I confirm the bug.

The culprit is this line in 'configure':

1577 echo "LIBBFD_LINK=-lbfd -ldl" >> Makefile
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I've tried to build OCaml in the framework of my AppsFromScratch; I needed to change the line to become:

echo "LIBBFD_LINK=-lbfd -ldl -liberty -lz" >> Makefile

  • please pay attention to '-lz' that was added too - without it I had undefined inflateInit_ and other symbols which are defined in 'libz'.

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vicuna commented Jul 4, 2010

Comment author: sergstesh

FWIW, the version of 'binutils' is 2.19.1 - maybe in the past 'libz' wasn't needed.

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vicuna commented Jul 6, 2010

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Fixed as suggested. Works OK under Mandriva. Will see if it causes problems with other systems.

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