While trying to build multimedia/xvidcore (dependency of
multimedia/mplayer), the build process failed to create the shared
library:

-n Linking the shared library...
ld: warning: option -o appears more than once, first setting taken
ld: fatal: file libxvidcore.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to libxvidcore.so.2.1
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/xvidcore/work/xvidcore-0.9.2/build/generic


Earlier in the configuration step, I saw the following:

checking for build extensions... .so .a .o
checking for platform specific LDFLAGS/CFLAGS... -Wl,-soname,libxvidcore.so -shared -lc -lm

I suspect the configuration script assumes that GNU ld is being used rather
than Sun's ld.  I found the line in "platform.inc" where the LDFLAGS had
been used as "SPECIFIC_LDFLAGS" and removed everything before the '-shared'
and the link step succeeded, creating libxvidcore.so.2.1 .

The install step didn't create symlinks for 'libxvidcore.so.2' and
'libxvidcore.so' pointing to libxvidcore.so.2.1 as I would have
expected.  We shall see if this causes a problem...

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