Re^5: Error during compilation of 5.8.8 on solaris 10

> The previous comments about needing libdb.a instead of libdb.so were incorrect.

The documentation says you're wrong; the '-l' option explicitly requires the '.a' version.


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Re^6: Error during compilation of 5.8.8 on solaris 10 by Sinistral (Monsignor) on Apr 10, 2008 at 19:08 UTC
Your documentation link went to the original parent node. A little searching shows this: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.0/gcc/Link-Options.html#Link-Options being what you're citing. I see what you're saying, but notice this option: -static On systems that support dynamic linking, this prevents linking with the shared libraries. On other systems, this option has no effect. Personal experience with GCC (including and especially on Solaris) indicates that if you have libname.so and libname.a, then the .so is preferred when building. If you only linked against libname.a, then you wouldn't need the -static command line flag.	[reply]
Re^6: Error during compilation of 5.8.8 on solaris 10 by Anonymous Monk on Apr 10, 2008 at 19:26 UTC
From the linker's (GNU `ld`) man page (remember, link options are just being passed through to the linker): -larchive --library=archive Add archive file archive to the list of files to link. This option may be used any number of times. ld will search its path-list for occurrences of "libarchive.a" for every archive specified. On systems which support shared libraries, ld may also search for libraries with extensions other than ".a". Specifically, on ELF and SunOS systems, ld will search a directory for a library with an extension of ".so" before searching for one with an extension of ".a". By convention, a ".so" extension indicates a shared library.	[reply] [d/l]