Re: configure error: bfd library not found

[Maynard J. <may...@us...>]

chandraiah gobburu wrote:
> Hi Maynard
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion. I have made it work by downloading binutils-2.17
> package. I have cross compiled bfd for ARM and copied the libraries to the
> toolchain path. Its working fine.
Put oprofile-list back on cc so others can see the solution (for future reference).

-Maynard
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Chandraiah
> 
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Maynard Johnson <may...@us...> wrote:
> 
>> chandraiah gobburu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am facing the following error while compiling oprofile-0.9.4 for arm.
>>> The
>>> logs are pasted below. Could any one help me to resolve this problem?
>>>
>>> [root@localhost oprofile-0.9.4]# ./configure --host=arm-linux
>>> --with-kernel-support
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> checking for bfd_openr in -lbfd... no
>>>
>> So, do you have libbfd(.a or .so) installed in the usual place where config
>> would look for it?  If you do, then perhaps the problem is you have a newer
>> binutils where libbfd has a dependency on libz that oprofile 0.9.4 did not
>> handle, which resulted in this rather unhelpful error message.  Pull the
>> latest oprofile cvs code for a fix.
>>
>> -Maynard
>>
>>> *configure: error: bfd library not found
>>> *
>>>
>>>
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