need help from a C programmer

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:10, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need help from someone with experience in C programming,
> and knowledge of FreeBSD specifics.
>
> I'm trying to build Jim Kent´s BLAT on FreeBSD
> http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/src/blat33Src.zip
>
> I've already got some progress, and a few patches, with help
> from the author and UCSC staff. But I've come to an obstacle
> that I (no C knowledge) can't fix.
>
> [ ... ]
> cd hg/pslPretty && gmake
> gmake[1]: Entering directory
> `/scratch/fernan/ports/blat/work/blatSrc/hg/pslPret ty'
> gcc34 -ggdb -o ../../bin/i386/pslPretty pslPretty.o ../../lib/i386/jkweb.a
> -lm pslPretty.o: In function `prettyOutString':
> pslPretty.o(.text+0x668): undefined reference to `__ctype_b_loc'
> pslPretty.o: In function `pslPretty':
> pslPretty.o(.text+0x116d): undefined reference to `stdout'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gmake[1]: *** [pslPretty] Error 1
>
> The authors also are intrigued: "stdout at least is about as
> basic and common of a C symbol as you can get. It looks
> like pslPretty isn't using ctype directly, but through
> isalpha() which is nearly as common as stdout"
>
> I, can't help much, but perhaps someone in the list has some
> clue as to what might be going on?
>
> My draft port is here
> http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/freebsd/blat/blat.shar.gz
>
> And the complete output here
> http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/freebsd/blat/blat.out.gz
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Fernan

For the stdout seems like you aren't linking to libc.

-Mike