Can't find -ldl ...

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat Sep 20 16:10:10 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Sep 20), Joe Sotham said:
> I am trying to build resin on a FreeBSD 5.1-p2 release. This does not
> appear to be a resin problem ...
> 
> I've modified the environment to search additional lib locations:
>    LDFLAGS=-L/usr/compat/linux/lib -L/usr/local/lib
> 
> Yet the following compile fails because a library can't be found:
> 
>  gcc -L/usr/compat/linux/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o resin resin.o
>    ../common/common.o std.o memory.o ssl_stub.o -lc_r -lssl
>    -lcrypto -ldl
> 
>  /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -ldl

It's a resin problem.  FreeBSD does not have libdl.  The dlopen()
family of functions are included in libc.  Remove -ldl from the
Makefile and report this bug to the Resin coders.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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