Bug 61437 – emerge nbaudit fails because ld cannot find -lshadow

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Wernfried Haas (RETIRED) 2004-08-23 14:49:17 UTC]

emerge nbaudit fails:
gcc -DSTEPPING -DSCANNER -DVERBOSE -DWORKGROUP=\"WORKGROUP\" -DGUEST_ACCOUNT=\"nobody\"  -DLINUX -DSHADOW_PWD -DNO_ASMSIGNALH -c parse_ip.c
gcc -DSTEPPING -DSCANNER -DVERBOSE -DWORKGROUP=\"WORKGROUP\" -DGUEST_ACCOUNT=\"nobody\"  -DLINUX -DSHADOW_PWD -DNO_ASMSIGNALH -o nat  nat.o client.o util.o system.o nmb.o charset.o parse_ip.o -lshadow
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lshadow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [nat] Error 1

!!! ERROR: net-analyzer/nbaudit-1.0 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 31, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

#locate libshadow
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadowfb.a

# qpkg -f /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a
x11-base/xorg-x11 *

After changing the ebuild to
        sed -e "s/# \(FLAGSM = -DLINUX -DSHADOW_PWD\)/\1 -DNO_ASMSIGNALH/" \
                -e "s/# LIBSM = -lshadow/LIBSM = \
                \/usr\/X11R6\/lib\/modules\/libshadow.a/" \
                Makefile.old > Makefile
but i'm not sure if this is the right way to do it. ;-)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge nbaudit





Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.27)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.27 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo
http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd emacs encode flac
foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++
libwww live mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss
pam pdflib perl phyton png python qt quicktime qz readline ruby sdl slang snmp
spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype wmf x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2004-08-24 03:37:29 UTC]

The right way is to add the directory of the library to the lib search path using
-L, i.e. adding -L/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/.

(btw, you can avoid escaping each "/" by using a different seperator for sed:
s;# LIBSM = -lshadow;LIBSM = -lshadow -L/usr/X11R6/lib/modules;)

fixed in portage.
thanks.

[Comment 2 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2004-08-24 05:03:47 UTC]

This seems to be a problem with recent shadow ebuilds: they used to provide these libs:
/usr/lib/libshadow.la
/usr/lib/libshadow.a
/usr/lib/libmisc.la
/usr/lib/libmisc.a

but now they don't.

[Comment 3 Devon 2004-08-24 07:41:20 UTC]

I would check out bug 37725; it looks like the libraries were removed.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-10-09 23:15:41 UTC]

    #   Currently, libshadow.a is for internal use only, so if you see
    #   -lshadow in a Makefile of some other package, it is safe to
    #   remove it.