Subject: Re: Errors compiling wu-ftpd 2.4 on BSDI --> it works!

From: "Pascale Tetreault" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:39:18 +0000

On 11 Oct 95 at 11:51, Vincent Cojot wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Pascale Tetreault wrote:
> 
> > Making ftpcount.
> > cc -O -DDEBUG -DVIRTUAL -I.. -I../support -L../support
> > -L/usr/local/lib -o ftpcount ftpco unt.c vers.o -lsupport -lregex
> > ld: No such file or directory for libregex.a *** Error code 1
> 
> Pascale,
> 
> The problem seems to exist with a missing library or, most likely, a
> likely somwhere where the makefile isn ot looking for it. I don't
> know if libregex.a is a standard BSDI library but your could try
> finding this library by typing:
> 
> `find / -name "libregex.a" -print`
> 
> (I don't know if that command exactly will work on your system but
> that's the idea..)
> 
> and then if you find the needed library you can specify where to
> look for it in the makefile by adding
> "-L/where/you/found/the/library". I hope this helps a little.
> 
> Vincent
> 

Hey Vincent:

Thanks for the tip, I got it to work.  The solution was, of course, 
rather simplistic:  I simply made a copy of the library (libregex.a) 
in the /usr/lib directory (where the other libraries for BSDI are 
located).  libregex.a was originally found in the src directory for 
wu-ftpd.

So wu-ftpd compiled without, it seems, any problems.  I shall now try 
and set it up correctly.  Don't be surprised if you find more 
questions comming from me on this list ;-)

Pascale