Compiling a static linked xymon client for RHEL 6.x 🔗 link

Hi all

I have searched the archives for a solution to this problem, but none of the discussed issues helped me with a final solution.
My goal is to monitor an appliance which is based on RHEL 6.x and for that reason I have tried to build a static linked xymon-client on CentOS 6.4

The client compiles just fine when using dynamic linked libs, but when trying to compile a static linked with "CGLAGS = -static" in the Makefile it fails with:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[1]: *** [test-endianness] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gjs/Downloads/xymon-4.3.10/lib'
gmake: *** [lib-build] Error 2

Any wise ideas on how to proceed with this ? :)

Best regards
/Gorm

On 1 May 2013 17:16, Gorm J. Siiger <user-489d04fa185e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc

Install the glibc-static package and try again.

The "-lc" means the "c" library, named libc.  The compiler replaces "-l"
with "lib".  The same type of error saying "cannot find -lMOO" would mean
that it couldn't find the library file libMOO.  For a dynamic library, this
would be libMOO.so, and for a static library would be libMOO.a.  So you're
missing the file "libc.so".

You can then use "yum provides */libMOO.so" to find what package to install.

J