references to forkpty and openpty on Linux (RH7.2)

Steve Kirkendall skirkendall at dsl-only.net
Sat May 18 23:35:14 EDT 2002


Anton Graph wrote:
> g++ -V 2.95.3 -g  -o metadb metadb.o metaadb.o metaddl.o metapy.o
> i386-linux.o -L/usr/local/lib/python2.2/config -lpython2.2  config2.o
> -lpthread -ldl -lm
[...]
> /usr/local/src/Python-2.2.1/./Modules/posixmodule.c:1934: undefined
> reference to `openpty'
> /usr/local/src/Python-2.2.1/./Modules/posixmodule.c:1965: undefined
> reference to `forkpty'

Try adding "-lutil" to the link line.  The openpty() and forkpty()
functions should be defined there.  I don't know why your grep
commands failed to locate the reference though.



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