linux - Cannot find -ly error

Question

I am trying to run a lexx and yacc program and I got the following error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ly
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Plz tell me which libraries am I supposed to add?

Answer 1

Could you find liby.a in /lib dir? If you don't have the file, you can use apt-file liby.a to find the package which includes it. In my case, apt install libbison-dev works.