On Sunday 25 November 2007 09:24, Shocky wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to LinuxBios, and just looking for a way to flash the bios on an HP > laptop without installing Windoze. None of the tricks I've found through > Google have worked for me so far, including HP's own utility for making > bootable usb keys. > > I'm trying to compile just the flashrom component of LinuxBios from svn, > but make gives me an error telling me that I need to install pciutils-devel > and zlib-devel. The problem is these packages are already installed. > > I extracted the little .test.c program from the Makefile, and determined > that the linker is unable to resolve the call to pci_alloc. The problem is > I don't know why. The header is there in /usr/include/pci/pci.h, > and /usr/lib/libpci.a is there (but I don't know how to tell what symbols > the library provides; reached the limit of my expertise there). > > This happens on two different machines, one running Mandriva 2008.0 (the > laptop in question), and the other Mandriva 2007.0 (my desktop pc). Any > ideas what's going on and how to resolve it? > > Shocky > -- > These are my opinions. Get your own.
I finally tracked down the problem, and it had nothing to do with libpci.a or libzlib1.a, except for the fact that static linking is used. Mandriva, both 2007 and 2008, has a package called glibc-static-devel which is required to do static linking. I guess this is the first time I've tried to build a package that used static linking. The clue was the reference to not being able to find "-lc". libc.a is part of this package. Once I urpmi'ed this package, flashrom built successfully. I wonder if someone could modify the Makefile message for this possibility, something like in the attached patch. Anyway, thanks to all those who helped me resolve this issue. Shocky -- These are my opinions. Get your own.
Index: Makefile =================================================================== --- Makefile (revision 2993) +++ Makefile (working copy) @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ distclean: clean rm -f $(PROGRAM) .dependencies - + dep: @$(CC) -MM *.c > .dependencies @@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ @$(CC) $(CFLAGS) .test.c -o .test $(LDFLAGS) &>/dev/null && \ echo "found." || ( echo "not found."; echo; \ echo "Please install pciutils-devel and zlib-devel."; \ - echo "See README for more information."; echo; \ - rm -f .test.c .test; exit 1) + echo "If you are sure these are installed check that"; \ + echo "all C compiler and static linker dependencies"; \ + echo "are installed. See README for more information."; \ + echo; rm -f .test.c .test; exit 1) @rm -f .test.c .test install: $(PROGRAM) Index: README =================================================================== --- README (revision 2993) +++ README (working copy) @@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ * pciutils-devel / pciutils-dev * zlib-devel / zlib1g-dev +If these are installed but make says that they are not, check that all +required dependencies for compiling and statically linking C programs +are installed. For example, Mandriva requires glibc-static-devel to +be able to statically link. + Usage -----
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