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Re: qmake linking fails with "cannot find entry symbol _start"

• Subject: Re: qmake linking fails with "cannot find entry symbol _start"
• From: Dimitri Papadopoulos <dimitri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:01:21 +0100
• Organization: Trolltech AS
• Sender: troll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• To: qt-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

> I'm trying to compile qt-x11-free-3.0.1 on RedHat 7.0, kernel 2.4.18-rc1 with gcc version 3.0.3.
> Configure throws core dumps and I figured that the problem is a tiny warning after linking
> qmake:
> g++ -o qmake project.o main.o ...
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 080497c0
> 
> qmake is build but remains useless.
> 
> Can anybody help me with that?

Try the _patched_ native compiler on a vanilla Red Hat, it works for me.
Installing custom kernels, GNU C libraries, compilers, etc. may results
in such errors.

Dimitri