Re: [ns] linking problems while compiling ns

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

you changed its makefile to add -E? it tells gcc to stop after
preprocessing.

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Joseph Hazboun wrote:

> 
> while compiling ns (using gcc 2.95.1, on Solaris 2.6) i got the following
> linking error when the ns executalble was being built:
> 
> gcc -E  -o ns \
>         tclAppInit.o  random.o rng.o ranvar.o  ... (the rest of the objectfiles)
> ..  \ -L../tclcl-1.0b9 -ltclcl -L../otcl-1.0a5 -lotcl                    \       
> -L../tkbox/lib -ltk80 -L../tclbox/lib -ltcl80 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -lm
> 
> gcc: tclAppInit.o: linker input file unused since linking not done
> gcc: random.o: linker input file unused since linking not done
> gcc: rng.o: linker input file unused since linking not done
> gcc: ranvar.o: linker input file unused since linking not done
> gcc: misc.o: linker input file unused since linking not done
> gcc: timer-handler.o: linker input file unused since linking not done
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Following is the entry in the Makefile for the above:
> $(NS): $(OBJ) tclAppInit.o Makefile
>         $(LINK) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDOUT)$@ \
>                 tclAppInit.o $(OBJ) $(LIB)
> 
> I also tried with the -O2 gcc flag set, but same result.
>