/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lyajl

[edenhill]

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lyajl

[tekumara]

I got this problem running ./bootstrap.sh:

....
Building libyajl
== removing old build files
== running CMake in build directory
./configure: 41: ./configure: cmake: not found
The "cmake" program is required to configure yajl.
....
Creating program kafkacat
gcc  -Itmp-bootstrap/usr/local/include -Itmp-bootstrap/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wsign-compare -Wfloat-equal -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align  kafkacat.o format.o tools.o json.o -o kafkacat  -L/usr/local/lib  -lpthread -lz -lcrypto -lssl -lsasl2 -lrt -ldl   -Wl,-Bstatic -lyajl -Wl,-Bdynamic tmp-bootstrap/usr/local/lib/librdkafka.a  -L/usr/local/lib  -lpthread -lz -lcrypto -lssl -lsasl2 -lrt -ldl  
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lyajl
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
mklove/Makefile.base:134: recipe for target 'kafkacat' failed
make: *** [kafkacat] Error 1

Solved by installing cmake: sudo apt-get install cmake

[edenhill]

What does ldd kafkacat tell you?

[giaosudau]

@edenhill

$ make
Creating program kafkacat
gcc -Itmp-bootstrap/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wfloat-equal -Wpointer-arith -Itmp-bootstrap/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wfloat-equal -Wpointer-arith  kafkacat.o format.o json.o -o kafkacat -L/usr/local/lib  -lpthread -lz -lssl -lcrypto -lsasl2 -lrt   tmp-bootstrap/usr/local/lib/librdkafka.a -Wl,-Bstatic -lyajl -Wl,-Bdynamic -L/usr/local/lib  -lpthread -lz -lssl -lcrypto -lsasl2 -lrt   tmp-bootstrap/usr/local/lib/librdkafka.a -Wl,-Bstatic -lyajl -Wl,-Bdynamic
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lyajl
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [kafkacat] Error 1

It's stuck in make step and can't make install
I don't know what you mean ldd kafkacat.

[vincentbernat]

I think it is looking at libyajl.a (due to requesting static linking). Dunno why static linking was requested, I don't know enough about mklove.

[edenhill]

That's the bootstrap script that links both librdkafka and libyajl statically.

@giaosudau But I think you are using an older version of kafkacat, can you update to latest master, remove tmp-bootstrap, and try again?

[giaosudau]

@edenhill I clone from master branch today.

[edenhill]

Are you running ./bootstrap.sh or ./configure + make?