Incorrect build on Solaris 10 with cc

[ptribble]

The ./configure script incorrectly sets up the linker flags for the server build on Solaris 10, if the Sun compiler (Studio 11, but I suspect it's generic to all compilers):

setenv CC cc
./configure --enable-server --with-mysql=/usr/sfw

This fails to link when it comes to (trimmed):

cc -g -o zabbix_server -L/usr/sfw/lib/mysql
...
-lmysqlclient
...

There are actually two errors here:

- It's looking in /usr/sfw/lib/mysql when the library is in /usr/sfw/lib. The extra mysql in the path is incorrect

- There's no corresponding -R, so that even if it were to link it would be unable to find the library at runtime

If I use /usr/sfw/bin/gcc, then the build succeeds. But this is by accident, because that gcc happens to look in /usr/sfw/lib anyway.

Furthermore, as far as I can tell the build with cc is unoptimized - I can't see any -O being specified (although -g is). Mind you, the gcc build has the optimization turned down to -O2 from the normal -O.

[Alexei]

Thanks for your post. What -R stands for? Is it GCC parameter?

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-R flags

The rule on most unix variants is:

-L directory to look for libraries at compile time
-R directory in which the binary should look for libraries when it runs

Now ./configure ought to work this out, but it rarely manages to get it right (your software would be much easier to build if you didn't use autoconf, but that's another discussion).