Re: Bug #238686, please help me ( mldonkey related )

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:36:49PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I permit to send this mail to debian-ocaml-maint ( official place where
> debian ocaml maintainer can talk ).
> 
> Well, following a strange bus error, Mr Bernard let me log into his
> system to try compiling mldonkey...
> 
> It seems to be worse than what i think... It doesn't even compile. I get
> this error :
> 
> /usr/bin/ocamlc.opt -linkall -o ocamlpp.byte       -custom unix.cma
> str.cma -cclib -lz    -I build         tools/ocamlpp.cmo  
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/libstr.a when
> searching for -lstr
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstr
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> But it also raises a similar error for unix et al... Just like all the
> ocaml library has problem !
> 
> The system is :
> Linux calypso 2.6.2 #1 Mon Feb 16 01:12:55 CET 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Maybe it comes from the sparc64 arch ?

Yep, see Bug#241024 for a similar issue. This is solved by :

  Telling ld that I have a sparc32 solves it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther