Compiling execline shared fails without --with-lib configure opt

From: J. Lewis Muir <jlmuir_at_imca-cat.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 17:31:25 -0600

Hello!

On x86_64 RHEL 7.7 with GCC 4.8.5, configuring and compiling execline
2.5.3.0 against skalibs 2.9.1.0 (which has been compiled with the
"--disable-static" configure option) with

----
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/local/encap/execline-2.5.3.0 --enable-shared --disable-static --with-sysdeps=/opt/local/lib/skalibs/sysdeps --with-include=/opt/local/include --with-dynlib=/opt/local/lib
$ make
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fails as follows:
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exec gcc -o background -pipe -Wall -std=c99 -fno-exceptions -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -Wa,--noexecstack -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector  -Wl,--sort-section=alignment -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--hash-style=both  -Wl,--gc-sections src/execline/background.o libexecline.a.xyzzy -lskarnet
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lskarnet
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [background] Error 1
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If I add the "--with-lib=/opt/local/lib" configure option, it succeeds.
This is unexpected because the "./configure --help" output says:
----
Dependencies:
  --with-sysdeps=DIR            use sysdeps in DIR [PREFIX/lib/skalibs/sysdeps]
  --with-include=DIR            add DIR to the list of searched directories for headers
  --with-lib=DIR                add DIR to the list of searched directories for static libraries
  --with-dynlib=DIR             add DIR to the list of searched directories for shared libraries
----
Since I'm not using static libraries, I would not expect to need the
"--with-lib" configure option.
Thank you,
Lewis

Received on Mon Dec 02 2019 - 23:31:25 UTC