[gcompris-devel] help needed

[Yavor Doganov]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:23:23PM +0530, Ankit Sahai wrote:
> what is this libalgebra.la  and ld???

The former is a libtool archive, see http://gnu.org/software/libtool and 
its documentation.  ld is the GNU linker, which in this case is invoked 
via GCC.

> is something missing in the system??

No, something is messy with the source you're compiling.  How did 
you obtain it and what modifications you've made?  With a recent 
(8.4.x for sure, IIRC) version of GCompris, that command should be

gcc -shared  .libs/algebra.o   Wl,-soname -Wl,libalgebra.so -o .libs/libalgebra.so

i.e. no -Wl,z,defs as an option to the linker.

Once again, reminding you that it would be easier to use either prebuilt 
packages, or build them yourself from a Debian source package that is 
properly made.  If you don't have at least some basic understanding 
what's going on, it is going to be extremely hard to succeed.