ld error trying to compile modutils-2.4.21-18.src.rpm or module-init-tools-0.9.12-pre1.tar.gz

[James McDonald]

Folks.

I am having trouble compiling a new set of modutils for my mandrake 9 box
I have been trying to compile a 2.5.68 series kernel and have found that 
the the module utilities have changed from the 2.4.x series.
I am running glibc-2.3.2 compiled and installed in /opt

The following error appears when attempting to compile 
module-init-tools-0.9.12-pre1 and the modutils src.rpm.

gcc  -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align  -L/opt/lib -L/usr/lib -L=/lib 
-L=/lib/i686 -o insmod.static -static insmod.o
/opt/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [insmod.static] Error 1

I didn't get much joy from a google but the man page of ld shows that 
the -lc is looking for libc.a which is a statically linked library I 
cannot find anywhere on my system

man ld {
ld -o <output> /lib/crt0.o hello.o -lc

       This  tells ld to produce a file called output as the result of 
linking
       the file "/lib/crt0.o" with "hello.o" and the library  "libc.a",  
which
       will come from the standard search directories.  (See the 
discussion of
       the -l option below.)
}

Can anyone enlighten me as to what I have to do to get libc.a on my 
system and or if I have to recompile glibc to produce it (which I don't 
think I do because it doesn't exist in the standard mdk9.0 rpms)?

Much appreciated.

James McDonald