Re: [uml-devel] Re: pcap cross-linking

[Blaisorblade <bla...@ya...>]

On Monday 19 December 2005 17:16, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Sunday 18 December 2005 20:03, Antoine Martin wrote:
> > Paolo,
> >
> > pcap builds and runs fine on amd64 but there is a problem when building
> > with SUBARCH=i386: it uses the wrong version of libpcap.a:
> > ld -r -dp -o arch/um/drivers/pcap.o arch/um/drivers/pcap_kern.o
> > arch/um/drivers/pcap_user.o  -m elf_i386
> > -r /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../libpcap.a
> >
> > Whereas the one it needs to link against is here:
> > /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libpcap.a
>
> This is IMHO a Gentoo bug - it is not setup for compilation of 32-bit
> binaries using anything else than glibc. I hit this problem with
> libncurses, when doing make menuconfig ARCH=um (now this was solved as
> helper programs are built as native again).

> However, I built uml with libpcap by default for some time - possibly it
> was before me switching to 64-bit linux.

No, the thing works but only because I indeed symlinked 32-bit libraries 
inside /usr/lib32.
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