Re: question about ld and shared libraries...

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Ed,

* Ed Hartnett wrote on Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:30:58PM CEST:
> 
> When trying to compile a fortran program in my configure script, I get
> the following output in config.log:
> 
> configure:5956: gfortran -o conftest -L/usr/local/lib  conftestf.o conftest.o 
>  
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/local/lib/libgfortranbegin.a when 
> searching for -lgfortranbegin
*snip*
> What makes ld skip these libraries?

Is this on x86_64 or a similar multi-ABI system?  And those library are
of the wrong type?

> The libaries are all recently created when I built gcc 4.1.0 on my
> machine, including gfortran.

Maybe with -m32?

Cheers,
Ralf