[Asterisk-Users] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lidn

[Jason Becker]

Matt Schulte wrote:
> Bueller? Is this a lib of some kind? Google and lists bring up nada,
> this is from ast cvs head latest on Fedora Core 3.
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lidn
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [app_curl.so] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/asterisk/apps'
> make: *** [subdirs] Error 1
> [root at zoot asterisk]# uname -a
> Linux zoot 2.6.9-1.667smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 2 14:59:52 EST 2004 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux

Looks like asterisk is using cURL:

CURLLIBS=$(shell curl-config --libs)
ifneq (${CURLLIBS},)
         APPS+=app_curl.so

And cURL uses libidn:

http://curl.netmirror.org/libs.html

So you likely need:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/libidn-0.5.6-1.i386.rpm

Regards,

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