This unacceptable change in the linker has the potential to break many packages. Especially when: cc=gcc $(include) $(libs) prog1: prog1.c
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libxml2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032639 Title: can not link against libxml2 Status in “libxml2” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When I try tolink against libxml2 I get undefined symbol errors from libxml2. Installed packages are: libxml2 libxml2-dev I try to build the tutorial file from libxml2: http://www.xmlsoft.org/tutorial/apc.html I try to build the programm like this: gcc -o main $(xml2-config --cflags --libs) main.o on other platforms (debian testing or ubuntu 10.04) this works flawlessly. the complete output: $ gcc -o main $(xml2-config --cflags --libs) main.o main.o: In function `parseStory': main.c:(.text+0x2f): undefined reference to `xmlStrcmp' main.c:(.text+0x4f): undefined reference to `xmlNodeListGetString' main.c:(.text+0x73): undefined reference to `xmlFree' main.o: In function `parseDoc': main.c:(.text+0xa9): undefined reference to `xmlParseFile' main.c:(.text+0xe9): undefined reference to `xmlDocGetRootElement' main.c:(.text+0x124): undefined reference to `xmlFreeDoc' main.c:(.text+0x13e): undefined reference to `xmlStrcmp' main.c:(.text+0x172): undefined reference to `xmlFreeDoc' main.c:(.text+0x197): undefined reference to `xmlStrcmp' main.c:(.text+0x1cd): undefined reference to `xmlFreeDoc' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status $ xml2-config --cflags -I/usr/include/libxml2 xml2-config --libs -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lxml2 $ ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2187982 May 18 21:52 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 947 May 18 21:52 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 18 21:52 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so -> libxml2.so.2.7.8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 18 21:52 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.7.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1417368 May 18 21:52 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.7.8 $ nm -D /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so |grep -e xmlStrcmp -e xmlNodeListGetString -e 'xmlFree$' -e xmlParseFile -e xmlDocGetRootElement -e 'xmlFreeDoc$' 0000000000054bd0 T xmlDocGetRootElement 0000000000358a08 D xmlFree 00000000000537e0 T xmlFreeDoc 0000000000051d50 T xmlNodeListGetString 000000000004e370 T xmlParseFile 00000000000aa9b0 T xmlStrcmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/+bug/1032639/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
