Re: Compiling ORBit under Solaris 7 sun4u

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kenneth Gullberg(Centus) wrote:

> getting some weird error messages when compiling orbit under sol7..
> 
> actually it chokes on libIDL..
> 
> Making all in libIDL
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -o tstidl  tstidl.o libIDL.la
> -L/export/home/gnome/lib -lglib
> gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/tstidl tstidl.o .libs/libIDL.so
> -L/export/home/gnome/lib -lglib -L/export/home/gnome/lib -lglib
> -R/export/home/gnome/lib
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> __IDL_lex_cleanup                   .libs/libIDL.so
> __IDL_prev_token_line               .libs/libIDL.so
> __IDL_in                            .libs/libIDL.so
> __IDL_lex_init                      .libs/libIDL.so
> __IDL_cur_token_line                .libs/libIDL.so
> __IDL_lex                           .libs/libIDL.so
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/tstidl
> *** Error code 1
> 
> any hints?

Are you using Solaris lex, or GNU flex? Try the latter if possible.

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