linker error: what could be going on? - c

I know not many people have telepathic powers here, but I will try to give as much info as I can so someone can help me debug what I think is a linker error in some program I'm trying to compile.
So, the program is cilkprof (see here, warning: tgz file). Within it is a Makefile for which I only changed the var CXX = icpc to CXX = g++. All else is equal.
/usr/bin/ld: ../../3rdparty/pintool/intel64/lib/libpin.a(util_host_ia32e.os):
relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `DoXsave' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [linux64/cilkprof.so] Error 1
I know I should be understanding that libpin.a should be recompiled with -fPIC, but the pin version I have is already compiled. Any idea what I may be doing wrong? Please ask if something is not clear. Thanks.

It seems to me that the Makefile is trying to build a shared library and link it to a static non-PIC library, which is AFAIK, something you can't do. So if you can not recompile the libray with -fPIC then the only solution I see is to modify the Makefile and build a static library instead.

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make doesn't link math lib when compiling

I get the following error while compiling xpdf using make. I've tried using the command:
LIBS=-lm make
However, it doesn't work. I know the problem is that the c compiler cannot recognise the math symbols in the source code because the math library is not available to it, but I don't know how to fix it.
[ 71%] Linking CXX executable pdftohtml
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/xpdf_objs.dir/Gfx.cc.o: undefined reference to symbol 'acos##GLIBC_2.2.5'
//usr/lib64/libm.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [xpdf/CMakeFiles/pdftohtml.dir/build.make:219: xpdf/pdftohtml] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:428: xpdf/CMakeFiles/pdftohtml.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2
I have put my Makefile and makeLists.txt on pastebin for more information
I realised I had to use the g++ compiler instead of gcc after reading the man page for gcc which stated:
The usual way to run GCC is to run the executable called gcc, or
machine-gcc when cross-compiling, or machine-gcc-version to run a
specific
version of GCC. When you compile C++ programs, you should invoke GCC as g++ instead.

Installing AODV protocol on Raspberry pi (https://github.com/erimatnor/aodv-uu)

I'm trying to install AODV protocol on Raspberry pi. After completing git clone from "https://github.com/erimatnor/aodv-uu" when I tried to do "make" and I am getting below error. Expecting your suggestion. Thank you!
make
gcc -Wall -O3 -g -DDEBUG -DCONFIG_GATEWAY -DDEBUG -o aodvd main.o list.o debug.o timer_queue.o aodv_socket.o aodv_hello.o aodv_neighbor.o aodv_timeout.o routing_table.o seek_list.o aodv_rreq.o aodv_rrep.o aodv_rerr.o nl.o locality.o
aodv_neighbor.o: In function neighbor_add':
/home/pi/aodv-uu/aodv_neighbor.c:68: undefined reference tohello_update_timeout'
aodv_timeout.o: In function route_discovery_timeout':
/home/pi/aodv-uu/aodv_timeout.c:98: undefined reference tort_table_update_timeout'
aodv_rreq.o: In function rreq_route_discovery':
/home/pi/aodv-uu/aodv_rreq.c:460: undefined reference tort_table_update_timeout'
aodv_rreq.o: In function rreq_local_repair':
/home/pi/aodv-uu/aodv_rreq.c:521: undefined reference tort_table_update_timeout'
aodv_rrep.o: In function rrep_forward':
/home/pi/aodv-uu/aodv_rrep.c:231: undefined reference tort_table_update_timeout'
nl.o: In function nl_kaodv_callback':
/home/pi/aodv-uu/nl.c:282: undefined reference tort_table_update_timeout'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:112: recipe for target 'aodvd' failed
make: *** [aodvd] Error 1
The code available from sourceforge is the same code that is on github. If you download the archive, you'll see that the latest modification date of any file there is 2010. Given the age of this code, I wouldn't be surprised to find that things simply don't work anymore.
However, here's a quick workaround for your problem. The root cause appears to be that the problem functions, like rt_table_update_timeout, are declared as inline, but that information seems to get lost somewhere in the build process such that other object files are trying to reference these as non-inline functions.
You can avoid this by opening defs.h, looking for this line:
#define NS_INLINE inline
And replace it with:
#define NS_INLINE
This will allow aodvd to compile correctly (make aodvd). On my system, the kernel module will subsequently fail to compile:
cc1: fatal error: /lib/modules/4.13.15-100.fc25.x86_64/build/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
As far as I can tell, the modversions.h file is no longer produced by modern Linux kernels.

I compiled the LAPACK and BLAS but my system can not recognize the library

I am working on a project written in a mix of Fortran 90 and Fortran 77 and now need to link the LAPACK/BLAS libraries, from netlib.org, to the project, all in a Linux environment. I used the gfortran compiler flags OPTS = -O2 -fPIC -m64 in the given Makefile, and then made it using
make blaslib
make
And it finished normally, or at least I think so.
Then, I copied the files in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin/ and /usr/local/lib64/
but it didn't work. I even used the option -L/path/to/lapack/liblapack.a and it didn't work also.
When I compile my code, I get the following error:
qrB.o: In function `qrfactorizeb_':
qrB.f90:(.text+0x64f): undefined reference to `zgeqp3_'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [run] Error 1
I am really unsure what to make of this error. I tested it in 3 other workstations and it didn't help! Can anyone help me?
I had the same problem some time ago! Dual working with Windows and Linux and also ease of playing with options in Windows taught me something interesting!
Try compiling such as:
[...]$
ifort liblapack.a libblas.a libslatec.a *.o -o profmm
and as you know, it means that I want to use 3 libraries to compile and link my files into profmm output file. It has no syntax error, but it leads to a lot of errors like:
preconditioner3.o: In function factorb_':
preconditioner3.f:(.text+0x1add): undefined reference tozgetrf_'
.
.
preconditioner.o: In function factorpre_':
preconditioner.f:(.text+0x13a2): undefined reference tozgetrf_'
preconditioner.f:(.text+0x18bb): undefined reference to zgetri_'
zbesh.o: In functionzbesh_':
zbesh.f:(.text+0xb3): undefined reference to d1mach_'
zbesh.f:(.text+0xcf): undefined reference toi1mach_'
.
.
.
and many more errors indicating that ifort is unable to read my libraries even though they are here in my current directory!
But simply change the command as follow:
[...]$ ifort *.o liblapack.a libblas.a libslatec.a -o profmm
and it works fine with no error! So it means that now ifort can read my library (local ones)! Also note that changing the order of libraries are very important, and it depends on the order of usage of those subroutines inside the program. So always try to reorder the library chain to check for possible errors.
Hope it helps.

Which library shall I add to get fcntl64, stat64, ... resolved?

I'm trying to build a project for ARM uClibc environment, but I've some functions missing. Can not find which library shall I include to resolve dependancies. nm do not help me to search, since it says on most of libs coming with toolchain:
nm: ./host/usr/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/lib/libuClibc-0.9.32.1.so: no symbols
Here is the output from GCC:
./host/usr/bin/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc
-Wl,-rpath,./host/usr/lib/
-Wl,-rpath,./host/usr/../lib/
-Wl,-rpath,./host/usr/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/lib/
-Llibzway -o test_so main.o -lzway
-L./host/usr/lib/
-L./host/usr/../lib/
-L./host/usr/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/lib/ -lpthread
-lxml2 -lz -lm
./host/usr/lib/libxml2.so: warning: gethostbyname is obsolescent, use getnameinfo() instead.
./host/usr/lib/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `fcntl64'
./host/usr/lib/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `fopen64'
./host/usr/../lib/libz.so: undefined reference to `lseek64'
./host/usr/lib/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `stat64'
./host/usr/lib/libiconv.so.2: undefined reference to `mbrtowc'
./host/usr/lib/libiconv.so.2: undefined reference to `_stdlib_mb_cur_max'
./host/usr/lib/libiconv.so.2: undefined reference to `wcrtomb'
./host/usr/lib/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `open64'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [test_so] Error 1
UPD:
I've copied uClibc from the target host and explicitely defined asked to link with it:
./host/usr/bin/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc
-Wl,-rpath,./host/usr/lib/
-Wl,-rpath,./host/usr/../lib/
-Wl,-rpath,./host/usr/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/lib/
-Llibzway -o test_so main.o -lzway
-L./host/usr/lib/
-L./host/usr/../lib/
-L./host/usr/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/lib/
-luClibc-0.9.31
-lpthread -lxml2 -lz -lm
./host/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/4.5.3/../../../../arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/bin/ld:
errno: TLS reference in ./host/usr/bin/../arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/lib/libpthread.so.0 mismatches non-TLS definition in ./host/usr/lib/libuClibc-0.9.31.so section .bss
./host/usr/bin/../arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/lib/libpthread.so.0: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [test_so] Error 1
This is much bayond my knowledge of cross-compilation. Any idea?
It sounds like you have several issues going on:
You seem to be trying to use the host's copy of libxml2.so. This is not going to work. You need one built for your target system and its libc.
Your uClibc was compiled without large file support. Go back and fix the build options or uClibc. It's not strictly necessary (a correctly built libxml2.so linked against uClibc will work without doing this), but using the pre-large-file interfaces is really backwards and will unnecessarily limit your programs.

Program compiles on one server, doesn't on another

I'm getting this error when I try and compile my program on my school's external server.
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
pow /var/tmp//ccWbipvM.o
sqrt /var/tmp//ccWbipvM.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to assign1
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The problem is I don't get it when I compile it locally - it runs fine. Can anyone give me some advice as to what the problem is here?? Thanks!
PS: math.h has been included.
Try linking your program with the math library by using the -lm flag:
gcc -o prg -lm prg.c

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