Re: scotty2.1 on IRIX problem

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:45:08 +0200

dinesh@newsnet.com.au (Dinesh Pullat) wrote:

> ld is failing on IRIX with:
>
> ld -shared -rdata_shared -o tnm.so -lsun -lsocket -lnsl -lrpcsvc
> /usr/lib/ld:
> The shared object /usr/lib/libsocket.so did not resolve any symbols.
> You may want to remove it from your link line.
> The shared object /usr/lib/libnsl.so did not resolve any symbols.
> You may want to remove it from your link line.
> Error: No object file linked
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
>
> I tried to remove the two switches but it errored on -lrpcsvc.
>
> Pointers/clues towards fixing the problem eagerly waited!

The warnings are no serious problem. The problem here is that the list
of object modules that should go into the tnm.so file is missing. Some
people wrote that this is a bug in IRIX make. The make problem can be
solved easily by using GNU make.
Juergen