Compilation problems of eggdrop 1.6.10 on SuSE Linux 7.0

[bencze]

It compiles, but when it does the linking I get the following error message:

tcl.o: In function `utf_converter':
/home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src/tcl.c:311: undefined reference to `Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj'
tcl.o: In function `init_tcl':
/home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src/tcl.c:602: undefined reference to `Tcl_UtfToLower'
/home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src/tcl.c:603: undefined reference to `Tcl_SetSystemEncoding'
/home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src/tcl.c:617: undefined reference to `Tcl_SetSystemEncoding'
/home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src/tcl.c:630: undefined reference to `Tcl_GetEncoding'
tclmisc.o: In function `tcl_md5':
/home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src/tclmisc.c:598: undefined reference to `Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [../eggdrop] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src'
make: *** [static] Error 2

Anyone has a suggestion what could I do? Do I need some special package installed or what? I have Tcl tcl-8.3.1-34 installed.
Thank you,
Bencze.

[ppslim]

This error usualy occurs when the tcl.h file being included into the eggdrop source code, is of a lower version to the libtcl.so being used.

During the ./configure faze, you should check that the version of tcl.h and libtcl.so are the same, and if not, make sure that traces of old versions are fully illiminated.

The ./configure faze will tell you exactly where if has located the files, and the name.

[bencze]

Actually I had to 'locate' them because the configure script haven't found them. I've set 2 variables, LIBTCL and LIBINC or something like this, as some help file is saying... maybe I just reinstall Tcl?

[ppslim]

I would sugest re-installing Tcl from scratch.

Some packages provided by the OS creator install files in odd locations, and do not fully configure them.

Try downloading Tcl yourself (available from the eggheads ftp archive ftp://ftp.eggheads.org/ ), compiling and installing.

[bencze]

I reinstalled tcl (8.4), and when compiling eggdrop I got the following:

make[2]: Leaving directory /home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src/compat'
---------- Yeah! that's the compiling, now the linking! ----------

Linking eggdrop... (static version)

gcc -pipe -o ../eggdrop bg.o botcmd.o botmsg.o botnet.o chanprog.o cmds.o
dcc.o
dccutil.o dns.o flags.o language.o main.o mem.o misc.o misc_file.o modules.o
net.o rfc1459.o tcl.o tcldcc.o tclhash.o tclmisc.o tcluser.o userent.o
userrec.o users.o mod/*.o -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl8.4 -lm -ldl -lnsl
md5/md5c.o compat/*.o Cat mod/mod.xlibsMstrip ../eggdrop
Successful compile: eggdrop

make[1]: Leaving directory /home/bencze/eggdrop1.6.10/src'

./eggdrop: error in loading shared libraries: libtcl8.4.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
make: *** [static] Error 127

What could be the problem? tcl is compiled as static, eggdrop too (same error if shared)...

[Petersen]

most probably your library hint file is not upto date. ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib might fix it

[bencze]

Had to do a full ldconfig (dunno why) but it worked. Thanks for the help, managed to compile my bot! )

[Hagar]

Had the same problem but I found a page that had some more info on how to use ldconfig so it's fixed now

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Hagar on 2002-06-22 23:30 ]</font>

[Yourname]

why dont you post the link here so it'll be helpful for us too.

[Hagar]

I could do that

http://www.tac.eu.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ldconfig+8

Somehow my version of ldconfig doesn't support the -m flag so that didn't work for me.
Then I came across this document and found out that it has a config file.

By default, it scans a set of built-in system directories, directories listed in /etc/ld.so.conf

So all I had to do to make it find the libary was to add the path to the libary in "ld.so.conf"
I ran ldconfig again and then make could complete the linking of the libaries.

It took me 4 hours to compile eggdrop becaase of this unfortunate error