Problems with kexec-tools-1.7, missing library

[Gregg Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
I just attempted to build the contents of kexec-tools-1.7, on a
Slackware 8.0 system running the 2.2.19 kernel. It ran make all the way
until it found a missing library to complain about. Basically, I don't
know what one it is talking about. I promptly ran make again, after
issuing a make clean. It repeated. I then created a script file,
containing the efforts of my third time around. Also it happened when I
issued the same commands, on version 1.0. Eric is the collection being
built static, rather then dynamic? Anyway, I've attached the script
file.
Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
Magic word is "Grok!"

Script started on Fri Nov 22 22:49:59 2002
root@drwho:/usr/src/lobos/kernel-patches/kexec/kexec-tools-1.7# make
mkdir -p objdir/build/sbin
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -I./util_lib/include -DVERSION='"1.7"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"18 November 2002"' -static -o objdir/build/sbin/kexec  ./objdir/kexec/kexec.o  ./objdir/kexec/kexec-syscall.o  ./objdir/kexec/kexec-x86.o  ./objdir/kexec/kexec-elf32-x86.o  ./objdir/kexec/kexec-bzImage.o  ./objdir/kexec/ifdown.o  ./objdir/kexec/x86-setup-32.o  ./objdir/kexec/x86-setup-16.o  ./objdir/kexec/x86-setup-16-debug.o ./objdir/libutil.a
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [objdir/build/sbin/kexec] Error 1
root@drwho:/usr/src/lobos/kernel-patches/kexec/kexec-tools-1.7# exit

Script done on Fri Nov 22 22:50:12 2002

Gregg Levine  writes:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I just attempted to build the contents of kexec-tools-1.7, on a
> Slackware 8.0 system running the 2.2.19 kernel. It ran make all the way
> until it found a missing library to complain about. Basically, I don't
> know what one it is talking about. I promptly ran make again, after
> issuing a make clean. It repeated. I then created a script file,
> containing the efforts of my third time around. Also it happened when I
> issued the same commands, on version 1.0. Eric is the collection being
> built static, rather then dynamic?

Yep.  It looks that way.  Oops. 
There are other pieces that need to be built static but the basic kexec
utility should need to be.  It's probably an accidental hold over from
something else.

Anyway remove the -static from the final build line kexec/Makefile
and it should compile dynamically.

$(KEXEC_S_OBJS): $(OBJDIR)/%.o: %.S $(OBJDIR)/%.d
         mkdir -p $(@D)
         $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ -c $<

$(KEXEC): $(KEXEC_OBJS) $(UTIL_LIB)
         mkdir -p $(@D)
-        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -static -o $@ $(KEXEC_OBJS) $(UTIL_LIB)
+        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(KEXEC_OBJS) $(UTIL_LIB)

echo::
         @echo "KEXEC_C_SRCS $(KEXEC_C_SRCS)"
         @echo "KEXEC_C_DEPS $(KEXEC_C_DEPS)"
         @echo "KEXEC_C_OBJS $(KEXEC_C_OBJS)"

Eric