Cannot find -lf2c compilation error

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Paul Smith wrote:
> 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.

That's not what your make run says....  it says you are trying to link 
in some x86_64 object files....

> Paul
> 


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