Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] 0.10.5 compile error on Fedora Core 2

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From: "Craig Bumpstead" <cbumpste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:42:07 +1000
Hi,

I get the following error:

(cd .libs && gcc -c -fno-builtin "etherealS.c")
rm -f .libs/etherealS.c .libs/ethereal.nm .libs/ethereal.nmS .libs/ethereal.nmT
gcc -DINET6 "-D_U_=__attribute__((unused))" -Wall -W -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/rpm -DINET6 -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Dlinux -I/usr/include/rpm -I. -I/usr/include/net-snmp -o .libs/ethereal pcap-util-unix.o capture_stop_conditions.o cfile.o conditions.o disabled_protos.o pcap-util.o range.o ringbuffer.o timestats.o version_info.o alert_box.o capture.o file.o filters.o g711.o merge.o proto_hier_stats.o summary.o .libs/etherealS.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic  -L/usr/local/lib gtk/libui.a wiretap/.libs/libwiretap.so epan/.libs/libethereal.so -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libnetsnmp.so -lelf -lcrypto /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so -lpcap -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lz -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lelf
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [ethereal] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/cbumpste/src/ethereal-0.10.5'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cbumpste/src/ethereal-0.10.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2

So, as far as my very basic understanding of ld goes, ld is looking for a library? elf? ".a" ?

Any help would be appreciated,
Cheers,
Craig