Bug 2454 – undefined reference to `atexit' when building xfree86-4.2.0-r9

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Morgan Christansson 2002-05-05 03:39:58 UTC]

Hi, i'm getting an undefined reference to `atexit' when building xfree86-4.2.0-r9



-- (snip many thounsand lines of build output) --

installing in programs/xdpyinfo...
make[3]: Entering directory
`/mnt/oldgentoo/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r9/work/xc/programs/xdpyinfo'
rm -f xdpyinfo
gcc -o xdpyinfo -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -ansi     -L../../exports/lib xdpyinfo.o
-lXtst  -lXi -lXIE -lXrender -lXinerama 		  -lXxf86vm -lXxf86dga -lXxf86misc -lXext
-lX11   -lm   -Wl,-rpath-link,../../exports/lib
../../exports/lib/libXxf86dga.a(XF86DGA.o): In function `XF86DGAGetVideo':
XF86DGA.o(.text+0xaac): undefined reference to `atexit'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [xdpyinfo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/oldgentoo/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r9/work/xc/programs/xdpyinfo'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/oldgentoo/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r9/work/xc/programs'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/oldgentoo/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r9/work/xc'
make: *** [install] Error 2

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_install, Line 2, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.2.0-r9.ebuild .



(btw, the /mnt/oldgentoo/tmp/portage is my PORTAGE_TMPDIR)

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-05-08 00:16:02 UTC]

Are you using gcc3?

[Comment 2 Morgan Christansson 2002-05-14 04:46:04 UTC]

This bug was due to invalid libraries on my machine, i had run strip on a few
files in /lib and apparantly that wasn't such a good idea.

Rebuilding gcc, glibc and a bunch of other libraries solved the problem.