From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 30 03:26:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA07069 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 03:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from colin.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.174.4.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA07064 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 03:26:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lutz@muc.de) Received: from tavari.muc.de ([193.174.4.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <140564-3>; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:25:33 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA18853; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:08:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ripley(192.168.42.202) by morranon via smap (V2.1) id xma018851; Sun, 30 Aug 98 12:08:11 +0200 From: "Lutz Albers" To: "William S. Duncanson" , Subject: RE: Questions regarding make world Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:07:45 +0200 Message-ID: <000601bdd3fe$086f55b0$ca2aa8c0@ripley.tavari.muc.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 In-Reply-To: <199808300927.EAA09858@starkreality.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 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