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Thomas Erskine (tom@clark.dgim.doc.ca) wrote:
: I've been trying to compile Ghostscript (version 2.61) and it's getting close.
: Looks like it's almost done, but can't quite finish it.  Usually gcc has
: been well behaved, but there have been a few programs (like Ghostscript)
: which won't link because they get this error.  Since it's not just with
: Ghostscript I thought I'd ask here:

: What did I do wrong in my gcc install?  I even went back, got a clean copy
: of the gcc sources and went through the whole install again, just to make sure
: I hadn't screwed up my stuff somehow.  I don't know what __lib_version is
: for and grep can only find it in the (non-functional) gs which gets produced.

: The tail-end of the output from make looks like:

: ./echogs -n - gcc -Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic -I.   -o gs gs.o gsmain.o [...]
: [ previous line truncated removing lots of object names.]
: ./echogs -x 205c >>_temp_
: cat ld.tr >>_temp_
: ./echogs -  -lm >>_temp_
: /bin/sh <_temp_
: ld: Undefined symbol 
:    __lib_version 
: collect: /usr/bin/ld returned 2 exit status
: gcc: file path prefix `dynamic' never used
: gcc: file path prefix `static' never used
: *** Error code 1
: make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `gs'


: Which I hope means something to somebody.  Will some-one please tell me
: what I've done wrong?

: Thanks.
: -- 
: Thomas Erskine        <tom@clark.dgim.doc.ca>           (613) 998-2836

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Try adding "-L/usr/lib" to your compiler options. This once solved a similar 
problem for me ...

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