Libnl compilation for powerpc

[Thomas Graf]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 08:51:44PM +0530, Uday Kiran K wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> >> -check that configure is actually building shared libraries, it'll say
> >> something like:
> >>      "checking whether to build shared libraries... yes"
> 
> This says "no" .
> Is this the reason? If yes, please tell me what might have went wrong ! ?
> 
> >>  or within build dir: find . -name 'libnl*.so'
> 
> Could you please tell me which build dir are you referring to ?
> 
> >> -review output of "make install" step, it'll tell you exactly where it
> >> placed libraries.  maybe they're in another dir, /usr/local/lib perhaps?
> 
> After "make install" , I am able to see some libnl* files in /usr/lib . But not all libraries are built. No libnl.so , no libnl-genl-so etc.
> 
> Only the following are being created.
> 
> libnl  libnl.a  libnl-cli.a  libnl-cli.la  libnl-genl.a  libnl-genl.la  libnl.la  libnl-nf.a  libnl-nf.la  libnl-route.a  libnl-route.la  pkgconfig
> 

It seems that your system is only capable of building static libraries.
Please consult with your distribution on how to enable building shared
libraries on your system.