Link error when compiling with libarchive on Debian 11

[firthmj]

I installed libarchive, because the configure process warned that it was not found.

However, when trying to build, the build then failed with a group of "undefined reference" errors for things from the libarchive library (e.g. "archive_read_new") in the "eal_firmware.c" file.

I suspect the fix is to add the equivalent of "-larchive" somewhere, but it isn't possible for me to work out how to do that in the "waf" system.

I removed libarchive again and the build completed successfully (but obviously without that part enabled)

This is on the latest patch version of Debian 11.

[hhaim]

it seems it is already supported the WAF code check if it is installed and add it, maybe you installed it after ./b configure ?

    conf.env.DPDK_WITH_ARCHIVE = False
    if conf.check_cxx(lib = 'archive', errmsg = 'Could not find libarchive', mandatory = False):
        conf.env.DPDK_WITH_ARCHIVE = True

[tjjh89017]

Faced the same issue in Debian 12 I install libarchive-dev before ./b configure. remove and reinstall libarchive-dev didn't help at all. Thank you

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you have newer 3430 libstdc++.so remove the old one, do not commit this

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/usr/bin/ld: src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c.4.o: in function `firmware_open':
/home/date/trex-core-3.05/linux_dpdk/build_dpdk/../../src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c:31: undefined reference to `archive_read_new'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/date/trex-core-3.05/linux_dpdk/build_dpdk/../../src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c:35: undefined reference to `archive_read_support_format_raw'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/date/trex-core-3.05/linux_dpdk/build_dpdk/../../src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c:38: undefined reference to `archive_read_support_filter_xz'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/date/trex-core-3.05/linux_dpdk/build_dpdk/../../src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c:42: undefined reference to `archive_read_open_filename'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/date/trex-core-3.05/linux_dpdk/build_dpdk/../../src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c:45: undefined reference to `archive_read_next_header'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/date/trex-core-3.05/linux_dpdk/build_dpdk/../../src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c:51: undefined reference to `archive_read_free'
/usr/bin/ld: src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c.4.o: in function `firmware_read_block':
/home/date/trex-core-3.05/linux_dpdk/build_dpdk/../../src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c:59: undefined reference to `archive_read_data'
/usr/bin/ld: src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c.4.o: in function `firmware_close':
/home/date/trex-core-3.05/linux_dpdk/build_dpdk/../../src/dpdk/lib/eal/unix/eal_firmware.c:65: undefined reference to `archive_read_free'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status