OpenSAML user discussion

[Tristan Waddington <>]

Scott,

I was finally able to get Shibboleth and its dependencies to compile in 
FreeBSD today. After recompiling all the dependencies with the 
--disable-static flag set, XML-Tooling was still unable to link to the 
XML-Security-C library.

I did some digging and found out that FreeBSD is unable to handle shared 
libraries with extended version numbers in the file name.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html

To solve this problem I had to create some symlinks like so:

libxml-security-c.so -> libxml-security-c.so.14.0
libxmltooling-lite.so -> libxmltooling-lite.so.2.0
libsaml.so -> libsaml.so.3.0

After doing so the compiler was able to link successfully.

Some of the dependencies created the links automatically, but apparently 
   these did not.

Thanks for your help!

-Tristan

Scott Cantor wrote:
> Also, I have a vague memory that there may be some kind of system option or
> compiler setting or something that controls whether -lfoo favors libfoo.so
> or libfoo.a. Usually it's supposed to favor .so I think, but maybe something
> on your box is doing the opposite.
>
> -- Scott

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Tristan Waddington

EMU Marketing — Assistant Web Developer
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