Re: [hypermail] Question about GDBM, hypermail 2.1.2 and Solaris 8

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:

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> We have successfully compiled hypermail 2.1.2 on Solaris with GDBM support
>
> gcc -o hypermail -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -Ipcre -L/usr/local/lib -Lpcre
...
> -lgdbm -lm -lpcre
>
> When trying to run hypermail we get
>
> ld.so.1: /opt/hypermail/2.1.2/bin/hypermail: fatal: libgdbm.so.2: open failed:
> No such file or directory
>
> libgdbm.so.2 has been linked from /usr/local/lib

You need to add -R/usr/local/lib to the link command line, ie

 gcc -o hypermail -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -Ipcre   -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib
   ...
  -lgdbm -lm -lpcre

See man page for ld(1)

Paul

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Paul Haldane
Computing Service
University of Newcastle