> I'm trying to build amanda-2.4.4p1 on Solaris 7
> uname -a:
> SunOS u03 5.7 Generic_106541-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
> 
> using gcc version
> gcc (GCC) 3.3.2
> 
> and get the following build failure:
> 
>       
> Making all in common-src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/Disk2/eleitl/amanda-2.4.4p1/common-src'
> /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2     -o libamanda.la -rpath /usr/local/lib
> -release 2.4.4p1 alloc.lo amflock.lo clock.lo debug.lo dgram.lo error.lo
> file.lo fileheader.lo amfeatures.lo match.lo protocol.lo regcomp.lo
> regerror.lo regexec.lo regfree.lo security.lo statfs.lo stream.lo token.lo
> util.lo versuff.lo version.lo pipespawn.lo sl.lo  -lgen -lm -lreadline
> -ltermcap -lsocket -lnsl -lintl
> rm -fr .libs/libamanda.la .libs/libamanda.* .libs/libamanda-2.4.4p1.*
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld -G -h libamanda-2.4.4p1.so -o .libs/libamanda-2.4.4p1.so
> alloc.lo amflock.lo clock.lo debug.lo dgram.lo error.lo file.lo fileheader.lo
> amfeatures.lo match.lo protocol.lo regcomp.lo regerror.lo regexec.lo
> regfree.lo security.lo statfs.lo stream.lo token.lo util.lo versuff.lo
> version.lo pipespawn.lo sl.lo  -lgen -lm -lreadline -ltermcap -lsocket -lnsl
> -lintl -lc
> ld: fatal: library -lreadline: not found
> ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to
> .libs/libamanda-2.4.4p1.so
> make[1]: *** [libamanda.la] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/Disk2/eleitl/amanda-2.4.4p1/common-src'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> libreadline (GNU readline 4.3) is there both in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib
> 
> Any ideas?

You probably need to throw -L (and probably -R) flags at that linker to get it
to find the library.  I'd set LDFLAGS to "-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib"
in your environment, rerun configure, and see what happens then.

I would think that it'd look in /usr/lib by default, but maybe not.

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