Kevin Brown wrote:

> Ok, with some help (thanks Patrick) I was able to get past a few problems in
> trying to get a program to compile.  I was able to connect to the CVS server for
> this packet sniffing program.  For the past two days I've tried to figure this
> out to no avail.  I tried searching Altavista and Google for similar errors to
> see what fixes were tried.  No go, so ...
>
> libEQ.a: could not read symbols: File format not recognized
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [showeq] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/showeq-2.1.2/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/showeq-2.1.2'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
> I tried redownloading both the tar.gz file (since one of the developers noticed
> a problem if Winzip was used) and the cvs version (to different directories) and
> both end with this error.  The file is present, it is not in source format, just
> the archive format (I think that is what .a files are).  So ..., Any clue.
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It sounds to me like the archive file *.a is built for a different system (sun, sgi
etc.). Can you tell if it was built for linux?

Jamie