Help, zillions of undefined references

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Eric Evans <eje4@cornell.edu> writes:

> I have a problem with a make I'm trying to do that is resulting in
> lots and lots of undefined reference errors (see excerpt from error
> output at end of message).  The programmer who wrote the program has
> no idea why all the functions are not being linked in.  He says it
> ought to work, and he's basically washed his hands of the thing and
> tells me that it is up to me to deal with the problem.  In my web
> searching I came across a message from a guy who said that the
> __gxx_personality_v0 reference error could be fixed by using LD=$(CXX)
> in the Makefile, but I tried that and it didn't work.  I am using gcc
> 3.2.2 on RH linux version 9.  I'm using the default make program that
> comes with RH 9.  Is this a problem that could be fixed by switching
> to a different version of gcc or a different version of make?  Is
> there some linker option in the Makefile that I need to set in order
> to get this thing to work?  Unfortunately I have little knowledge of
> gcc and make.  Any advice I could get on how to proceed to
> troubleshoot this problem would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks very
> much.

Start by posting the exact command line which causes the error.

Ian