This is an Autoconf issue, not Automake. Adding the following line to your configure.ac file will likely resolve the problem:
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([connect],[socket],[],[],[]) It should add -lsocket to LIBS if necessary. Bob On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, John Ling wrote: > I am running on Solaris and I was trying to compile an application that > used the libmysqlclient.a library. > > I encountered an error: > > Undefined first referenced > symbol in file > socket > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o) > getpeername > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o) > setsockopt > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o) > getservbyname > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o) > getsockopt > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o) > shutdown > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o) > connect > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o) > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. > > > Now the solution was to add a -lsocket to the linking options. > But, should this not be something that autoconf or automake suite of > tools detect and automatically handle for me? Do I need to manually add > this only when I run on Solaris? > > Now that I do need to handle this. Where is the best place to check the > OS environment variable to see if I need to set this as a variable > somewhere. I wanted to do something like: > > ifeq ($(OSTYPE),solaris) > export SOCKET = -lsocket > endif > > Do I do this in configure.in somehow or in Makefile.am? Is there a > better way anyone can suggest. I would think something like this is a > common problem to handle. > > Thanks, > John Ling > > > ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
