undefined reference to `memcpy@GLIBC_2.14'

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Configure-Administer
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Hi all,

I am trying to build the driver below on SLES 11 SP1 x86-64 with patches “Linux.kernel.x86_64.6230”.

http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX/Linux/libftd2xx1.1.12.tar.gz

When building I get:

make -B
for n in BitMode EEPROM/erase EEPROM/read EEPROM/write EEPROM/user/read EEPROM/user/size EEPROM/user/write Events LargeRead MultiThread SetVIDPID Simple Timeouts ; do make -C $n || exit 1; done
make[1]: Entering directory me/ftdi/release/examples/BitMode' gcc main.c -o bitmode -Wall -Wextra -L. -lftd2xx -Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so: undefined reference to memcpy@GLIBC_2.14’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [bitmode] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `me/ftdi/release/examples/BitMode’
make: *** [subdirs] Error 1

This is no doubt because the glibc on SLES is 2.11.1-0.17.4 i.e. too old.

Is there any way around this or will the driver manufacturer have to change something?

Many thanks!

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Hi GEKen,

Is there any way around this or will the driver manufacturer have to change something?

that’s the curse of binary driver distributions - have you seen the following information from their README (http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX/Linux/ReadMe-linux.txt)?

In addition, you might want to ask the manufacturer to provide a binary of that lib precompiled for your SLES version.

Regards,
Jens