On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:00:13PM +1300, Clint Dilks alleged: > Hi People > > I am trying to build a piece of software from source in this case aide > 0.13.1 using this config line ./configure --with-zlib --with-selinux. > The configure step completes but there is a Warning that concerns me. > This is taken from config.log > > configure:9809: checking for mhash_get_block_size in -lmhash > configure:9844: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -static -static conftest.c > -lmhash -lz >&5 > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmhash > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The '-static' means that the linker needs to find a static library archive to create a static executable. That means it wants to find /usr/lib/libmhash.a. Without the '-static', it would look for the shared library, libmhash.so. The mhash-devel package doesn't contain libmhash.a, so your test linking fails. It has been fedora/upstream policy for while to discourage the packaging of static archive files. I'm sure the Fedora wiki has a page explaining why, but I'm too lazy to find it right now.
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