Javier, Well, libfl.so is actually part of the libfl-dev package, which is a dependency of flex (and only flex). So uninstalling flex should have removed libfl-dev as well. But anyway, good to hear that you got it working.
Markus On 05/24/2017 07:29 PM, Javier Antonio Ruiz Bosch wrote: > Hi Markus. > > Following your suggestion, I remove Debian's flex package installed but I > had to remove manually libfl.so.2 from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and I see > that when I reinstall the system flex this library don't reappear here. So, > binutils was installed well and I leave installing felx in case something > (outside EasyBuild) need it. > > Thanks Markus. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be > [mailto:easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be] On Behalf Of Markus Geimer > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 1:39 AM > To: easybuild@lists.ugent.be > Subject: Re: [easybuild] binutils fails because libfl.so.2 > > Javier, > > I ran into the same issue some time ago -- and my workaround was to remove > Debian's 'flex' package installed on the system. It seems that the system's > libfl.so is being picked up, which cannot be loaded for some reason. > Unfortunately, I was not yet able to figure out where and why exactly this > is happening... :-( > > Markus > > > On 05/23/2017 11:33 PM, Javier Antonio Ruiz Bosch wrote: >> Hi EasyBuilders >> >> To install Binutils-2.26 with the dummy toolchain in Debian 8 I had to >> reinstall (--force) zlib because I was having the same problem that >> Heywood Todd (zlib 1.2.8 was not installed with having -fPIC enabled). >> But when everything looked fine the installation failed in sanity >> checking step: >> >> == FAILED: Installation ended unsuccessfully (build directory: >> /opt/easybuild/build/binutils/2.26/dummy-): build failed (first 300 >> chars): cmd "ldd /opt/easybuild/software/binutils/2.26/bin/ar" exited >> with exitcode 1 and output: >> /opt/easybuild/software/binutils/2.26/bin/ar: error while loading >> shared >> libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfl.so.2: invalid ELF header >> >> What could be happening here? >> >> Thanks >> >> Javier >> >> >> -- Dr. Markus Geimer Juelich Supercomputing Centre Institute for Advanced Simulation Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich, Germany Phone: +49-2461-61-1773 Fax: +49-2461-61-6656 E-Mail: m.gei...@fz-juelich.de WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
