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I just moved from RH (CentOS 6) with gcc 4.4.6 to Ubuntu 12 with gcc 4.6.3. I have a program that references a third party library. I have successfully build and installed the library on the Ubuntu machine. When I run updatedb and locate libXXX.so I get the same exact results. I look for the header file the same way and also get the same exact results.

I have a small test program that came from the CentOS box. It consists of one *.c file and a bash script to build and run it. It's all very simple. The script looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

rm -f a.out
gcc -W -lpowerdna *.c

exit 0

I have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set (on both the CentOS and Ubuntu boxes) to the directory where the header file and *.so reside. I have double, triple, and quadruple checked that the spelling and the capitalization are correct.

And yet when I compile on the Ubuntu machine, I get the undefined reference to '<function name>' error for every function call in the test program. To add to the general oddness, their defined types are not generating errors. When I comment out the #include in my test file, the compiler generates errors for the types.

This is a very simple setup, with very few points of possible failure. I'm certain I'm doing something stupid, but for the life of me, I don't see it. For completeness, I'll post the pertinent parts.

Source file:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<signal.h>
#include "PDNA.h"

// bare bones test program

Locate results:

[brian@localhost dmap403]$ locate PDNA.h  
/usr2/uei/DAQLib/PDNA.h

[brian@localhost dmap403]$ locate libpowerdna  
/usr2/uei/DAQLib/libpowerdna.so  
/usr2/uei/DAQLib/libpowerdna.so.4  
/usr2/uei/DAQLib/libpowerdna.so.4.4.0

Environment variable:

[brian@localhost dmap403]$ env | grep LD_
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr2/uei/DAQLib

When I compile on Ubuntu, I get these results:

/tmp/ccJAa183.o: In function 'main':  
dmap403.c:(.text+0x6c): undefined reference to 'function name'  
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It looks like the compiler doesn't know where the *.so is, but I have it in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Heck, I even added -L/usr2/uei/DAQLib -lpowerdna to the gcc options to no avail.

EDIT: Perhaps this should be moved to the Linux site?
EDIT: Updated title to better reflect the question.

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Hmmm... I moved the *.c before the libraries and it compiled fine. I didn't know that the order mattered. Go figure...

Original: gcc -W -I/usr2/uei/DAQLib -L/usr2/uei/DAQLib -lpowerdna *.c

Current: gcc -W *.c -I/usr2/uei/DAQLib -L/usr2/uei/DAQLib -lpowerdna

C'est la vie.

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