[nos-bbs] Re: TNOS and the 'cannot find -lc' link error ...

[kd4yal at tampabay.rr.com]

---- "Maiko Langelaar (ve4klm)" <maiko at pcs.mb.ca> wrote: 
> Interesting !!!
> 
> * Jerry, I'm copying this to the list for the benefit of others.
> 
> Your rpm for glibc-devel only has the shared version :
> 
>   [root at jerrysmachine]# rpm -ql glibc-devel | grep "libc\."
>   /usr/lib/libc.so
> 
> Mine has both :
> 
>   [maiko at maikosmachine]$ rpm -ql glibc-devel | grep "libc\."
>   /usr/lib64/libc.a
>   /usr/lib64/libc.so
> 
> That's why I did not have any problems linking TNOS 3.0 on my system,
> because I had the libc.a (static) installed.
> 
> Another solution of course is to just force dynamic linking for TNOS,
> which is ironic, since the default for most systems now is to do dynamic
> linking of libraries.
> 
> The 'Makefile' for TNOS 3.0 by default uses static linking. If you look
> in the 'Makefile', you will see an entry :
> 
>     LTYPE = -static
> 
> If you want to do dynamic (the default), just override this value by
> adding the following entry to the 'make.inc' file :
> 
>     LTYPE =
> 
> Lantz (rightfully) did not want people mucking up the main makefile. Any
> customizations should go into the 'make.inc' instead.
> 
> Hope that helps.

Sure did thanks!


Jerry, KD4YAL