On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: >> Chris -- can you try linking this simple app to see if >> it causes the linker error, and further try adding >> -lresolv to see if that fixes the error? > > Yup - that does it and the error confirms the symbol > that is causing this odd behaviour in libpci.a. > > $ gcc -o conftest conftest.c -lpci > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libpci.a(names-net.o): > In function `pci_id_net_lookup': > (.text+0x1bc): undefined reference to `__res_query' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > $ > > $ gcc -o conftest conftest.c -lpci -lresolv > $ > > Same behaviour on both RHEL 5.6 and CentOS 5.6 (as you'd > hope for!).
Ok, good. I'll see if I can code this up. ...done. Try a nightly trunk tarball >=r3516 (new nightly should be made in about 6 hours). >> FWIW, on my RHEL 5 machine (with only libpci.a), both >> link commands seem to work (but my libpci.a doesn't >> have a __res_query symbol). > > Hmm, which release of RHEL5 is that ? [11:47] svbu-mpi:~ % nm /usr/lib/libpci.a | grep res_query [11:47] svbu-mpi:~ % nm /usr/lib64/libpci.a | grep res_query [11:47] svbu-mpi:~ % cat /etc/issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) Kernel \r on an \m [11:47] svbu-mpi:~ % -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
