xmlrpc-c-config prints out incorrect linker flags

[Roman Bogorodskiy]

Looks like xmlrpc-c-config scripts returns incorrect linker flags.

I create a simple C++ source file foo.cc:

int main(int argc, char **argv) { return 0; }

I want to compile it and link to xmlrpc-c. I have libxmlrpc-c3-dev package installed using apt-get, so I execute the following command and get an error:

(10:40) novel@hybrid:~/tmp/xmlrpc %> g++ `xmlrpc-c-config c++2 client --libs --cflags --ldadd` foo.cc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
(10:40) novel@hybrid:~/tmp/xmlrpc %>

[Vitaliy Berdinskikh (ur6lad)]

fldigi uses xmlrpc-c-config in `configure`.

This file contains library name 'xmlrpc_abyss' but it library is absent.
==== find ====
$ find /usr/lib -name "*abyss*"
/usr/lib/libxmlrpc_server_abyss.so.3
/usr/lib/libxmlrpc_server_abyss++.a
/usr/lib/libxmlrpc_server_abyss.so
/usr/lib/libxmlrpc_server_abyss.a
/usr/lib/libxmlrpc_server_abyss++.so.3.06
/usr/lib/libxmlrpc_server_abyss++.so.3
/usr/lib/libxmlrpc_server_abyss.so.3.6.15
/usr/lib/libxmlrpc_server_abyss++.so
==== /find ====

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xmlrpc-c - 1.06.27-1ubuntu8

---------------
xmlrpc-c (1.06.27-1ubuntu8) natty; urgency=low

  * Resolve unresolved references in shared libraries. LP: #690779.
  * Fix build failures with ld --no-add-needed.
  * Fix build failures with ld --as-needed.
  * libxmlrpc-c3-dev: Recommend libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl3-openssl-dev.
    LP: #284515.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:45:44 +0100