Now I really do need some help. Please. The *.al version of a convenience library is not being built on solaris:
Testing on sourceforge compile farm. Most machines build fine, but when I get to Solaris 8 (I was able to duplicate this problem on another Solaris 8 machine, too): A. [x86] Linux 2.4 (Debian 2.2) [OK!] B. [x86] Linux 2.4 (Redhat 7.3) [OK!] G. [Alpha] Linux 2.2 (Debian 3.0) [OK!] L. [Sparc - Ultra60] Linux 2.4 (Debian 3.0) [OK!] M. [Sparc - R220] Sun Solaris (8) #1 [FAIL] make[2]: Entering directory `/data/_g/lii/bb/src' [...] ld: fatal: file replace/.libs/libreplace.al: open failed: No such file or directory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to .libs/libswish-e.so.2.0.0 make[2]: *** [libswish-e.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/_g/lii/bb/src' make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/_g/lii/bb/src' make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 549) ~/bb %ls -laR src/replace src/replace: total 36 drwxr-x--- 4 lii ipcgi 512 Mar 28 22:50 . drwxr-x--- 6 lii ipcgi 2048 Mar 28 22:51 .. drwxr-x--- 2 lii ipcgi 512 Mar 28 22:49 .deps drwxr-x--- 2 lii ipcgi 512 Mar 28 22:50 .libs -rw-r----- 1 lii ipcgi 12196 Mar 28 22:49 Makefile -rw-r----- 1 lii ipcgi 651 Mar 28 22:50 libreplace.la src/replace/.deps: total 8 drwxr-x--- 2 lii ipcgi 512 Mar 28 22:49 . drwxr-x--- 4 lii ipcgi 512 Mar 28 22:50 .. -rw-r----- 1 lii ipcgi 8 Mar 28 22:49 mkstemp.Plo -rw-r----- 1 lii ipcgi 8 Mar 28 22:49 vsnprintf.Plo src/replace/.libs: total 6 drwxr-x--- 2 lii ipcgi 512 Mar 28 22:50 . drwxr-x--- 4 lii ipcgi 512 Mar 28 22:50 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 lii ipcgi 16 Mar 28 22:50 libreplace.la -> ../libreplace.la No libreplace.al here. Here's my Makefile.am for the top dir: 542) ~/bb %cat ../swish-e-2.3.5/src/Makefile.am SUBDIRS = expat replace [...] lib_LTLIBRARIES = libswish-e.la libswish_e_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 2:0:0 $(Z_LIBS) $(PCRE_LIBS) libswish_e_la_CPPFLAGS = $(Z_CFLAGS) $(PCRE_CFLAGS) -Ireplace libswish_e_la_LIBADD = $(BTREE_OBJS) replace/libreplace.la And for my libreplace: 550) ~/bb %cat ../swish-e-2.3.5/src/replace/Makefile.am noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libreplace.la libreplace_la_SOURCES = libreplace_la_LIBADD = @LTLIBOBJS@ EXTRA_DIST = mkstemp.h On linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/zzzz/build/src/replace/.libs$ ls -la total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 moseley moseley 46 Mar 28 22:56 . drwxr-xr-x 4 moseley moseley 65 Mar 28 22:56 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 8 Mar 28 22:56 libreplace.al lrwxrwxrwx 1 moseley moseley 16 Mar 28 22:56 libreplace.la -> ../libreplace.la ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4.2a (1.922.2.100 2002/06/26 07:25:14) automake (GNU automake) 1.7.3 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]