Im trying to install gSOAP on RHEL 7. Google doesnt seem to have the answer when I search "/bin/ld: cannot find -ly"

[root@BDOULXU459 gsoap-2.8]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8'
Making all in gsoap
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8/gsoap'
make all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8/gsoap'
Making all in .
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8/gsoap'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8/gsoap'
Making all in src
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8/gsoap/src'
gcc -DWITH_YACC -DWITH_FLEX -DSOAPCPP_IMPORT_PATH=""/usr/share/gsoap/import"" symbol2.o soapcpp2-error2.o soapcpp2-init2.o soapcpp2-soapcpp2.o -ly
/bin/ld: cannot find -ly
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [soapcpp2] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8/gsoap/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8/gsoap'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8/gsoap'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/b014002158/gsoap-2.8'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Any suggestions? Thanks!

you told gcc to use yacc

but you did not install it or it is not in the normal rhel " /usr "location

as per the error liby is not found

I cant find yacc on the repo so I installed byacc.

[root@BDOULXU459 gsoap-2.8]# yum search yacc
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
========================================================================== N/S matched: yacc ===========================================================================
byacc.x86_64 : Berkeley Yacc, a parser generator
python-ply.noarch : Python Lex-Yacc

Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.
[root@BDOULXU459 gsoap-2.8]# whereis byacc
byacc: /usr/bin/byacc /usr/share/man/man1/byacc.1.gz

" .. cannot find -ly" : -ly means liby.a

$ yum provides */liby.a

# yum install bison-devel
.... The package provides one file : /usr/lib64/liby.a



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Thanks! It worked after installing bison.