NS installation problem

[Jie Lai <jlai@liman.Rutgers.EDU>]

Hi,

I am getting there with my Ns installation with the help of many people. 
After otcl, tclcl, I run "make" for "ns-2.1b2". I got follows:


c++ -static  -o ns \
        tclAppInit.o  random.o rng.o ranvar.o misc.o timer-handler.o  
scheduler.o object.o  packet.o ip.o route.o connector.o ttl.o  trace.o 
trace-ip.o  classifier.o classifier-addr.o classifier-flow.o classifier-hash.o  
classifier-mcast.o classifier-mpath.o replicator.o  classifier-mac.o  cbr.o 
traffictrace.o pareto.o expoo.o telnet.o tcplib-telnet.o  agent.o message.o 
udp.o session-rtp.o rtp.o rtcp.o ivs.o  tcp.o tcp-sink.o tcp-reno.o 
tcp-newreno.o  tcp-vegas.o tcp-rbp.o tcp-full.o  scoreboard.o tcp-sack1.o 
tcp-fack.o  tcp-asym.o tcp-asym-sink.o tcp-fs.o tcp-asym-fs.o  tcp-int.o chost.o 
tcp-session.o nilist.o  integrator.o queue-monitor.o flowmon.o loss-monitor.o  
queue.o drop-tail.o red.o  semantic-packetqueue.o semantic-red.o ack-recons.o  
sfq.o fq.o drr.o cbq.o  hackloss.o errmodel.o  delay.o ll.o snoop.o  channel.o 
mac.o mac-csma.o mac-802_11.o mac-multihop.o  dynalink.o rtProtoDV.o 
net-interface.o  ctrMcast.o prune.o srm.o  sessionhelper.o delaymodel.o 
srm-ssm.o  srm-topo.o  lib/int.Vec.o lib/int.RVec.o  lib/dmalloc_support.o 
gen/version.o gen/ns_tcl.o  win32.o 
-R/common/madras/ns/ns-2.1b2/../tcl-debug-1.7 
-L/common/madras/ns/ns-2.1b2/../tcl-debug-1.7 -ltcldbg -R../tclcl-1.0b5 
-L../tclcl-1.0b5 -ltclcl -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lotcl 
-R/common/madras/ns/ns-2.1b2/../tk8.0/unix 
-L/common/madras/ns/ns-2.1b2/../tk8.0/unix -ltk8.0 -R../tcl8.0/unix 
-L../tcl8.0/unix -ltcl8.0   -lXext -lX11  -lsocket -lnsl -ldl  -lm
ld: fatal: library -ldl: not found
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to ns
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ns'


There is no dynamic load library. Where does this "dl" come from ? 
Any comments ? 

Thanks.

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