Re: error compiling popt in ORBit

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, William F. Maton wrote:

> 	Me compiler doesn't seem to be able to compile a library in popt:
> 
> (cd .libs && ln -s ../libpopt.la libpopt.la)
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -Wall -g -O2  -o test1 -all-static
> test1.o libpopt.la 
> gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o test1 -static test1.o .libs/libpopt.al
> .libs/libpopt.al: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib
> to add one
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [test1] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/ORBit/popt'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/ORBit/popt'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/ORBit/popt'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome/ORBit'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so.1 (No such file or
> directory), skipping
> 
> Can anyone shed some light?

Get libtool 1.3.3

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