Do I need to compile glibc to have less problem
in the futur ?
Thanks
-- Jean-Yves Simon.> > simon@tdc.tijp.ti.com wrote: > > I donwloaded the latest version of abi (0.7.5) to > > install it on my Linux box (slack 4.0, kernel 2.2.6) > > > Linking static /usr/local/src/abi-0.7.5/src/../src/Linux_2.2.6_i386_OBJ/bin/AbiWord_s > > /usr/i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1/bin/ld: cannot open -ldl: No such file or directory > > I believe your problem is that Slackware still ships libc5 as its > C library, which includes the dl_* functions (we assume we need to > link against libdl). You can just tell AbiWord not to build the > static version (you don't need it if you have a dynamic version) > with "make UNIX_CAN_BUILD_STATIC=0". > > If you want to make the static build work, you could edit > abi/src/config/platforms/linux.mk to tell it that the dl flags > should be empty. However, these days, it's a very small minority > of Linux machines that do things this way. > > -- > Shaw Terwilliger