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On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 12:32 +0100, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> | /usr/bin/ld: ../src/lockdev.z: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
> | /usr/bin/ld: ../src/lockdev.z: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
> | /usr/bin/ld: ../src/lockdev.z: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
> | /usr/bin/ld: ../src/lockdev.z: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
> | /usr/bin/ld: ../src/lockdev.z: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
> | ../src/lockdev.z: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
> | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> | make[1]: *** [blib/arch/auto/LockDev/LockDev.so] Error 1

You seem to be trying to use /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/ld to generate
target binaries.  Those should almost certainly be ${CC} and ${LD}
respectively.

p.