Strange linking error: DSO missing from command li

Question

When I'm compiling openvswitch-1.5.0, I've encountered the following compile error:

 gcc -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wpointer-arith
     -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wformat-security -Wswitch-enum -Wunused-parameter -Wstrict-aliasing -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-field-initializers -Wno-override-init  -g -O2 -export-dynamic ***-lpthread***  -o utilities/ovs-dpctl utilities/ovs-dpctl.o lib/libopenvswitch.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_eal.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/libethdev.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_cmdline.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_hash.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_lpm.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_mbuf.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_ring.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_mempool.a
 /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_malloc.a -lrt -lm 
     /usr/bin/ld: /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_eal.a(eal.o): undefined reference
     to symbol 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing from 
     command line

If I try to see the symbols of libpthread, it looks fine.

$ readelf -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 | grep pthread_create
   199: 0000000000008220  2814 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   13 pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.2.5
   173: 0000000000008220  2814 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT   13 __pthread_create_2_1
   462: 0000000000008220  2814 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   13 pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.2

Could you give any hints or pointers?

Answer 1

I also encountered same problem. I do not know why, i just add -lpthread option to compiler and everything ok.

Old:

$ g++ -rdynamic -m64 -fPIE -pie  -o /tmp/node/out/Release/mksnapshot ...*.o *.a -ldl -lrt

got following error. If i append -lpthread option to above command then OK.

/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/node/out/Release/obj.host/v8_libbase/deps/v8/src/base/platform/condition-variable.o: undefined reference to symbol 'pthread_condattr_setclock@@GLIBC_2.3.3'
//lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Answer 2

The same thing happened to me as I was installing the HPCC benchmark (includes HPL and a few other benchmarks). I added -lm to the compiler flags in my build script and then it successfully compiled.

Answer 3

Please add: CFLAGS="-lrt" and LDFLAGS="-lrt"

Answer 4

The same problem happened to me when I use distcc to make my c++ project; Finally I solved it with export CXX="distcc g++".