Thank you for sharing your configuration. I will definitely look more closely at these macros.
John Ling ----- Original Message ----- From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:55 pm Subject: Re: Solaris and socket library > John Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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? > > I use this: > > dnl The rat's nest of networking libraries. The common cases are > not to > dnl need any extra libraries, or to need -lsocket -lnsl. We need > to avoid > dnl linking with libnsl unless we need it, though, since on some > OSes where > dnl it isn't necessary it will totally break networking. Unisys also > dnl includes gethostbyname in libsocket but needs libnsl for socket(). > AC_SEARCH_LIBS([gethostbyname], [nsl]) > AC_SEARCH_LIBS([socket], [socket], , > [AC_CHECK_LIB([nsl], [socket], LIBS="$LIBS -lsocket -lnsl", , - > lsocket)]) > in configure.ac. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <" > target="l">http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > >
