Has someone got "/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Can't find library: "dl""

[programmer400]

Dear friends
While building the server executable for Systinet Server And Im getting
the following error.
$ make all
No suffix list.
Making all in basic
No suffix list.
Making all in arrays
cd ../.. && make am--refresh
No suffix list.
No suffix list.
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link /opt/aCC/bin/aCC -g -o
arrays client.o arrays.lo arraysStructs.lo
/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib/libwasp.la
/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib/libwasp_stl.la
/opt/aCC/bin/aCC -g -o arrays client.o .libs/arrays.o
.libs/arraysStructs.o /opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib/libwasp_stl.sl
/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib/libwasp.sl -lm -ldl -lpthread -Wl,+b
-Wl,/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib -Wl,+s
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Can't find library: "dl"
*** Error exit code 1
Stop.
*** Error exit code 1
Stop.
*** Error exit code 1
Stop.
when I checked under /sr/ccs/bin/ ld is an executable.
Im sure it has got to do with equivalent library
is called libdld under /usr/lib/

Can someone please throuw light on how to get rid of such eror ?

Thanks

 

[Annihilannic]

This isn't really a Unix Scripting question. If I recall you were compiling this under AIX, so I'd recommend asking the question in the AIX forum, or General Unix if there isn't one.

Annihilannic.

 

[p5wizard]

-ldl instructs the linkage editor (ld) to process a file called libdl.a

In AIX, see if you have all the filesets bos.adt.lib* installed.

lslpp -l 'bos.adt.lib*'

If not installed, then that is probably your problem.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[programmer400]

Annihilannic and p5wizard
Thanks for your replies . Sorry for putting this post in Scripting forrum. Im using HP-UX system
Can you please tell me which linker file needs to be looked at under HP-UX
Thanks for ur time

 

[p5wizard]

It is the same on any unix: -ldl ==> libdl.a (or perhaps libdl.so for a shared object library)

Generally the library files are in /usr/lib or in /lib. That's where ld looks for them. You can specify another library dir by using a LIBPATH variable or by using

ld -L /my/lib/dir -ldl ...

this would look for /my/lib/dir/libdl.a (or .so).


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[programmer400]

hi
p5wizard, thanks for your comments. I have one more doubt
From the above post I undestood that I have to add a path for -L/usr/lib/pa20_64 in SHBLIB path in my .profile which is something like
setenv SHLIB_PATH /usr/lib/pa20_64

Please corerct me if Im wrong
Thank you

 

[p5wizard]

Or you can modify the makefile and include your LIB dir somewhere in the parameter part of the makefile (somewhere in the top of the file I would assume).


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[programmer400]

I have included
SHLIB_PATH = -L/usr/lib/pa20_64 in my makefile still Im getting the same error.
I dont know how to resolve yet

 

[programmer400]

I did run configure script again with the parameters as
/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/share/doc/waspc/demos> ./configure CXX=/opt/aCC/bin/aCC LD=/opt/aCC/bin/aCC

and it was successul and I used aCC compiler as the linker instead of system default (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) now doing make Im getting the following error
$ make all
No suffix list.
Making all in basic
No suffix list.
Making all in arrays
cd ../.. && make am--refresh
No suffix list.
No suffix list.
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link /opt/aCC/bin/aCC -g -o
arrays client.o arrays.lo arraysStructs.lo
/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib/libwasp.la
/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib/libwasp_stl.la
/opt/aCC/bin/aCC -g -o arrays client.o .libs/arrays.o
.libs/arraysStructs.o /opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib/libwasp_stl.sl
/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib/libwasp.sl -lm -ldl -lpthread -Wl,+b
-Wl,/opt/systinet/server_cpp65/lib -Wl,+s
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Can't find library: "dl"
*** Error exit code 1
Stop.
*** Error exit code 1
Stop.
*** Error exit code 1
Stop.


/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Can't find library: "dl" => checked dl library is not present on the HP-UX system . also having specified aCC compiler as linker while running ./configure , the error shows still is uses system default linker /usr/ccs/bin/ld. Im not sure why .

All the 64 bit libraries of HP-UX are under /usr/lib/pa20_64 directory .

 

[p5wizard]

A c complier automatically invokes linkage editor (ld) in the last step of building an executable.

google for keywords hpux and libdl.a - you seem to be not alone in your quest for this library...


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[programmer400]

Thanks for the knowldege update

under /usr/lib/pa20_64 I have
libdl.1
libdl.sl
libdld.1
libdld.sl

only , I dont have libdl.a file in my pa20_64

I did google for hpux and libdl.a and found one good article that is
_

http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.unix.programmer/linking-unix.html

So not having libdl.a could be the cause of this problem ?

Thanks for your time

 

[p5wizard]

I would think that you configure-d incorrectly or there is something wrong with the configure script.

See what happens if you remove the -ldl from the makefile? Just use vi or any other editor you prefer.

Or go through the configure stage again.



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[programmer400]

p5wizard

Im reinstalling the systinet server again will let you know soon
Thanks
Amit