when cross compiling sys-libs/ss configure fails on: /usr/libexec/gcc/armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc/ld: cannot find -lcom_err Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.xmerge sys-libs/ss Actual Results: >>> Emerging (1 of 3) sys-libs/ss-1.39 to /armeb-gentoo-v2/ * e2fsprogs-1.39.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * e2fsprogs-1.39.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * e2fsprogs-1.39.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * e2fsprogs-1.39.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking e2fsprogs-1.39.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking e2fsprogs-1.39.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ss-1.39/work * Applying ss-1.38-locale.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying ss-1.39-makefile.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying ss-1.39-parse-types.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ss-1.39/work/e2fsprogs-1.39 ... * econf: updating e2fsprogs-1.39/config/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating e2fsprogs-1.39/config/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-elf-shlibs --with-ldopts= --disable-nls --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu Generating configuration file for e2fsprogs version 1.39 Release date is May, 2006 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc CC defaults to armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc-gcc checking for armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc-gcc... armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... yes checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed LD defaults to armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc-gcc checking how to run the C preprocessor... armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc-gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking linux/fs.h usability... yes checking linux/fs.h presence... yes checking for linux/fs.h... yes checking for additional special compiler flags... (none) LDFLAGS is Disabling maintainer mode by default Disabling compression support by default Enabling htree directory support by default Enabling ELF shared libraries Disabling BSD shared libraries by default Disabling profiling libraries by default Disabling checker libraries by default Disabling journal debugging by default Disabling blkid debugging by default Disabling testio debugging by default Enabling swapfs support by default Enabling debugfs support by default Enabling e2image support by default Enabling e2resize support by default Building e2fsck statically by default Building fsck wrapper by default Building e2initrd helper by default Disabling device-mapper support by default checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether NLS is requested... no checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/gmsgfmt <snip> CC prompt.c CC request_tbl.c CC list_rqs.c CC pager.c CC requests.c CC data.c CC get_readline.c SUBST mk_cmds MK_CMDS std_rqs.c CC std_rqs.c GEN_LIB libss.a GEN_ELF_SOLIB libss.so.2.0 /usr/libexec/gcc/armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc/ld: cannot find -lcom_err collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [libss.so.2.0] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ss-1.39/work/e2fsprogs-1.39/lib/ss' !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ss-1.39 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1615: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 972: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile ss-1.39.ebuild, line 48: Called die
My hack solution to fix my build was to edit the ebuild, and change the line: --with-ldopts="${LDFLAGS}" \ to --with-ldopts="${LDFLAGS} -L/armeb-gentoo-v2/lib" \ This should be fixed though to not require it.
install into your sysroot and it'd work fine if you dont want to install into sysroot, then you're responsible for adding proper -L flags to your LDFLAGS
