Cannot find -lf2c compilation error

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>>>>>> I am trying to compile a program which was written in C. (The Makefile
>>>>>> is shown below.) However, when I run the command 'make', I get the
>>>>>> following error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ make
>>>>>> ... -L./f2c -lf2c -lm
>>>>>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf2c
>>>
>>> You don't have to modify anything. Just:
>>>
>>> $ cd bpmpd_c/src/f2c
>>> $ make
>>>
>>> which builds bpmpd_c's f2c library and after that you can
>>>
>>> $ cd ..
>>> $ make
>>>
>>> as you tried.
>>
>> Thanks, Jussi. Your suggestion solve the problem, but now I am getting
>> a another one. Please, see below.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Paul,
>        I'm not sure what you are doing wrong, I just downloaded the .tar.gz
> file, untar-ed it, went to the f2c directory and ran "make", changed back to
> the src directory, and ran "make" again.  It built for me with no problems
> (F9-x86_64).  You have something wrong with your development environment.
>
> Your errors below seem to be a problem between x86 and x86_64.  Did you do
> both builds on the same computer?

None, actually. My architecture is i386.

Paul