Re: undefined symbol: deflate

Thanks for the thorough bug report.  Its possible we could look for -lz
in LIBRARIES and either fix LIBRARIES order, or do the extra_link_args
trick if its there.

Brandon

On 09/29/07 jhmark0 uttered the following other thing:
> hi all,
> 
> I built ClearSilver 0.10.5 on Linux and found that neo_cgi wouldn't
> load... producing this error message at runtime:
> 
> neo_cgi.so: undefined symbol: deflate
> 
> A number of other people on the Internet seemed to have run into this
> also, but I could not find a definitive solution.
> 
> I noticed that the problem was caused by the ordering of the ld
> command line.
> The "-lz" option was occurring before the other -l options
> containing the ClearSilver code.  This caused "deflate" to be left
> undefined in the symbol table, instead of being loaded from libz.a.
> 
> I was able to get it working by patching python/setup.py to add a
> second "-lz" at the end (see below).  This is not a general solution
> since it assumes that compression is enabled.  Is there a better way
> of dealing with link order issues in distutils?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Jonathan Mark
> 
> *** setup.py.old        2007-09-28 21:01:02.000000000 -0700
> --- setup.py    2007-09-28 20:58:55.000000000 -0700
> ***************
> *** 122,127 ****
> --- 122,128 ----
>         include_dirs=INC_DIRS,
>         library_dirs=LIB_DIRS,
>         libraries=LIBRARIES,
> +       extra_link_args = ["-lz"],
>         )]
>     }
> 
> 
> 
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