title: Compilation error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lclntsh
body: <p>While trying to compile a C program using make file, I am facing the following linking error described below. </p>
  
  <p>I know this kind of issues are already discussed in many other posts, but I tried with solutions suggested in them but they all did not work. </p>
  
  <p>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lclntsh</p>
  
  <p>libclntsh.so and libclntsh.so.10.1 are  present in oracle path  /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib and that is being given as -L option in make file. Still I am facing the issue:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>Linking yieldrpt ...
  cc -v -g -D_HPUX_SOURCE -DPARETO -Wl,-aarchive -L/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib/         yieldrpt.o  -lclntsh `cat /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib/ldflags`   -lmalloc -ldl -lm   \
                  -lmalloc -o yieldrpt
  Using built-in specs.
  Target: i386-redhat-linux
  Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --disable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --with-cpu=generic --host=i386-redhat-linux
  Thread model: posix
  gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)
  /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/collect2 --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_i386 --hash-style=gnu -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -o yieldrpt /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../crt1.o /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/crtbegin.o -L/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/lib/ -L/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../.. -aarchive yieldrpt.o -lclntsh -lnbeq10 -lnhost10 -lnus10 -lnldap10 -lldapclnt10 -lnsslb10 -lntcp10 -lntcps10 -lnsslb10 -lntcp10 -lntns10 -lmalloc -ldl -lm -lmalloc -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed -lc -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/crtend.o     /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../crtn.o
  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lclntsh
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
  make: *** [yieldrpt] Error 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please let me know if any other info is needed.
  Thank you</p>