Trying to get Lazarus for Sparc built but when it comes to the time where Lazarus is being linked, I get the following:

Free Pascal Compiler version 2.1.1 [2006/12/15] for sparc Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for SPARC
Compiling lazarus.pp
Assembling lazarus
Linking ../lazarus
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgdk_pixbuf
lazarus.pp(114,42) Error: Error while linking
lazarus.pp(114,42) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted
make[2]: *** [lazarus] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/svn/lazarus/ide' make[1]: *** [ide] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/svn/lazarus/ide' make: *** [ide] Error 2

For some reason, it seems that everything else finds the gdk_pixbuf library just fine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

PS: The binaries compile fine under Win32 and tonight's snapshot is on my website for downloading for that architecture.

For some reason, it seems that everything else finds the gdk_pixbuf library just fine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Assuming that you installed the gdk-pixbuf-devel libraries ?

Otherwise I usually do a strace -f <cmdline> | grep pixbuf, or something similar.

Micha

Fine when running or compiling?

Unix libraries often have names like

libbasename.so.x.y (or libbasename.a.x.y for static libs) which ready made programs are linked against, while compilers search for libbasename.so (or libbasename.a).

You probably need to create the symlink. (on Linux such symlinks are in the -devel package together with the headers)