Bug 362581 – app-admin/conky-1.8.1-r2 failed to configure.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Thomas 2011-04-08 10:17:30 UTC]

I tried to install conky but it won't configure:

checking for iwlib.h... yes
checking for iw_sockets_open in -liw... no
configure: error: iw_sockets_open not found

the strange thing is: iw_sockets_open seems to be in the file:
cat /usr/include/iwlib.h | grep iw_sockets_open
	iw_sockets_open(void);

The relevant part of the logfile:
configure:13984: checking for iw_sockets_open in -liw
configure:14009: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c -liw  -lncurses -lm -lX11    >&5
/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/conky-1.8.1-r2/temp/ccbvv644.o: In function `main':
conftest.c:(.text+0x7): undefined reference to `iw_sockets_open'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:14009: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "Conky"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "conky"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.8.1"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "Conky 1.8.1"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "[e-mail]"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "conky"
| #define VERSION "1.8.1"
| #define _GNU_SOURCE /**/
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
| #define LT_OBJDIR ".libs/"
| #define CONFIG_OUTPUT 1
| #define HAVE_FOPENCOOKIE 1
| #define OWN_WINDOW 1
| #define NCURSES 1
| #define IBM 1
| #define IOSTATS 1
| #define MATH 1
| #define XOAP 1
| #define XOAP_FILE "$HOME/.xoaprc"
| #define WEATHER 1
| #define X11 1
| #define USE_ARGB 1
| #define HAVE_IWLIB_H 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
|    Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
|    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| char iw_sockets_open ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| return iw_sockets_open ();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:14018: result: no
configure:14023: error: iw_sockets_open not found

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) 2011-04-09 06:38:03 UTC]

That's a link problem, so it's a problem with the library itself rather than its header file. For instance, maybe your wireless-tools is newer than conky expects, and has a different library API (I notice the conky ebuild does not specify specific versions for wireless-tools).

Try using 'nm' on your /usr/lib/libiw.so and see if 'iw_sockets_open' symbol is really missing. 

Also, please post results of 'emerge --info net-wireless/wireless-tools'

[Comment 2 Thomas 2011-04-09 14:58:33 UTC]

I rebuildet net-wireless/wireless-tools and now it's working. So for now I don't know what was wrong before.