Re: Bug#227306: flex: incompatible libfl.a

2004-01-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava 
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:20:11 +, Magosányi Árpád [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 

 Package: flex Version: 2.5.31-21 Severity: normal

 cc -o checkpolicy ebitmap.o hashtab.o symtab.o sidtab.o avtab.o
 policydb.o services.o y.tab.o lex.yy.o queue.o write.o checkpolicy.o
 -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.3.3/../../../libfl.a when searching
 for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libfl.a
 when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
 /usr/lib/libfl.a when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: cannot find
 -lfl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [checkpolicy]
 Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
 `/usr/local/build/tmp/checkpolicy-1.4' make: ***
 [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2

This sounds more like a bug in the sparc tool chain
 somewhere. Why is the library incompatible?

manoj
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Re: Bug#227306: flex: incompatible libfl.a

2004-01-16 Thread Ben Collins 
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:44:29AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:20:11 +, Magos?nyi ?rp?d [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 
 
  Package: flex Version: 2.5.31-21 Severity: normal
 
  cc -o checkpolicy ebitmap.o hashtab.o symtab.o sidtab.o avtab.o
  policydb.o services.o y.tab.o lex.yy.o queue.o write.o checkpolicy.o
  -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.3.3/../../../libfl.a when searching
  for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libfl.a
  when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
  /usr/lib/libfl.a when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: cannot find
  -lfl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [checkpolicy]
  Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
  `/usr/local/build/tmp/checkpolicy-1.4' make: ***
  [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2
 
   This sounds more like a bug in the sparc tool chain
  somewhere. Why is the library incompatible?

Sounds like someone is doing a compile that is actually 64-bit, and the
link fails because libfl.a is 32-bit.

Tell them to prepend sparc32 to their compile command line.

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