The following reply was made to PR pkg/29470; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29470: popt build on Solaris fails with: ld: fatal: library -lc: not found
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:34:57 +1100

 On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 07:41:00PM +0000, eric.boutilier@sun.com wrote:
 
 > Build fragment:
 > ---------------
 > 
 > gcc -Wall -O -I/pkgsrc/devel/popt/work/.buildlink/include -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/gcc3/lib/gcc-lib/i386-sun-solaris2/3.3.5 -Wl,-R/usr
 > /pkg/gcc3/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -o test1 -static test1.o  -L/pkgsrc/devel/popt/work/.buildlink/gcc3/lib/gcc-lib/i386-sun-so
 > laris2/3.3.5 -L/pkgsrc/devel/popt/work/.buildlink/gcc3/lib -L/pkgsrc/devel/popt/work/.buildlink/lib ./.libs/libpopt.a /pkgsr
 > c/devel/popt/work/.buildlink/lib/libintl.a /pkgsrc/devel/popt/work/.buildlink/lib/libiconv.a -lc
 > 
 > ld: fatal: library -lc: not found
 > ld: fatal: library -lc: not found
 > ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to test1
 
 this builds for me on Solaris 8. is it possible that Solaris 10 lacks
 the static libc? that's the only reason I can see why the above would
 be failing.
 
 grant.