Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:07:45 +0200 From: "Lutz Albers" <lutz@muc.de> To: "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@starkreality.com>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Questions regarding make world Message-ID: <000601bdd3fe$086f55b0$ca2aa8c0@ripley.tavari.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <199808300927.EAA09858@starkreality.com>
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> I tried to build world tonight, and got an error message from the linker. > I know it's missing a library, but damned if I can tell WHAT library. The > flag being passed is -ll (dash ell ell). It's not a very > descriptive name, > unlike -lsocket, or -lcurses, which are pretty easy to figure out:). Any > ideas what's missing? And where to get it? The flag -lxxx translates to a library libxxx, so -ll searches for libl.a (or libl.so). On my machine it resides in /usr/lib: lutz@morranon[~] > ll `locate libl.` -r--r--r-- 3 bin bin 440 Mar 25 02:54 /usr/lib/libl.a It's the lex library. ciao lutz -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de, pgp key available from <http://www.pgp.net>; Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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