Re: copious errors compiling on netbsd

[Jason Stover]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:39:49AM +0800, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:13:41PM -0400, Jason Stover wrote:
>      It still breaks:
>      
>      $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-gui --without-libncurses
>      ...
>      checking size of double... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof 
> (double)
>      See `config.log' for more details.
>      
>      The relevant section of config.log is:
>      
>      configure:25173: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g -O2  -mieee 
> -I/arpa/gm/j/jstover/include  conftest.c -lpq -lplot -
>      lm  >&5
>      ld: warning: libssl.so.2, needed by /sys/pkg/lib/libpq.so, not found 
> (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
>      /sys/pkg/lib/libcrypto.so.1: warning: warning: reference to 
> compatibility times(); include <sys/times.h> for corr
>      ect reference
>      /sys/pkg/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `SSL_set_ex_data'
>      /sys/pkg/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `SSL_set_fd'
>      
> 
> What do you get further down in config.log?  After failing to link
> this, it should subsequently try again with -lssl, and it should
> have succeeded the second time.

It didn't seem to try again. This was the last failure; several more of 
the same type preceded it.

> "cannot compute sizeof (double)" usually indicates something more
> fundamental, (like a totally broken compiler).

But the error wasn't exactly about computing sizeof (double), it was a linker
error.