Re: Symbol referencing errors while gmake

[Greg Chicares]

On 2007-4-6 22:39 UTC, Swaroop Sugunan wrote:
>  
> We are getting the following error while trying to build the software
> using gmake.
>  
> CC -mt -i -xarch=amd64 -o ../../../unixshared/bin/solarisx64/CPpwdPlugin
> CPpwdAgent.o unix.o Service.o -L../../../unixshared/lib/solarisx64
> -L../../../unixshared/bin/solarisx64
...
> -lpthread -lsocket -lnsl -lxnet -ldl  -g

Copy and paste that command into a shell; presumably
you'll see it fail in the same way.

This error message comes from the linker, not 'make':

> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> fdatasync                          
> ../../../ExternalAPIs/Sleepycat/solarisx64/lib/libdb.a(os_fsync.o)
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
> ../../../unixshared/bin/solarisx64/CPpwdPlugin

The linker is trying to find 'fdatasync', but it cannot.
You need to link the library in which your system provides
'fdatasync': apparently 'libdb.a' depends on it.

'make' just passes commands to a shell. All 'make' knows
is that the command failed:

> gmake[2]: *** [../../../unixshared/bin/solarisx64/CPpwdPlugin] Error 1