[openamq-dev] client application link problem

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Dec 10, 2007 10:03 AM, blog <blog at yankeeboysoftware.com> wrote:

> Any idea why -lgsl.a is being magically converted to /usr/lib/libgsl.so
> (which does not exist) ?  Is this a known issue, if so do I work around
> it ?

I suspect some voodoo in gcc, the problem occurs in other projects -
e.g. http://sourceware.org/ml/gsl-discuss/2002-q3/msg00125.html.

It obviously only affects certain versions of gcc and/or certain
operating system configurations, since we've never had this problem
reported before.

A simple but not very elegant fix is to delete the libgsl.a file from
$IBASE/lib.  The 'c' compile script will list all libraries it finds
in that directory; if libgsl.a is missing, it won't include it, and
the problem won't happen.  We don't generally need GSL functions in
AMQP client applications.  GSL is the code generation engine we use.

-Pieter