On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:14:54PM -0800, Ti Kan wrote:
> Alexander Mai writes:
> > Well, somehow it might be the issue with gethostname.
> > Why is there a function gethostname() within a header??
>
> There is no function within a header, but the unistd.h on my machine
> has a prototype as follows:
>
> extern int gethostname(char *, size_t);
>
> but mwm's fallback declaration has the second argument as int, producing a
> type conflict error.
Yup, this seems to be a better signature!
We will adopt this (is e.g. used in SUS V2)
> At any rate, I shouldn't be getting into this fallback. On many SVR4-based
> boxes gethostname() and many other networking service functions are
> in the libsocket and libnsl libraries, so perhaps configure should do some
> additional checks and do the right thing.
> Just about any networking commands on UnixWare (as well as Solaris and
> other SVR4 based platforms) need -lsocket -lnsl.
>
> I tried forcing #define HAVE_GETHOSTNAME in LTconfig.h and adding
> "-lICE -lSM -lsocket -lnsl" to the clients/mwm/Makefile and now mwm compiles
> fine. I think -lICE -lSM should also be something that configure would
> automagically put in...
[...]
Well, IIRC there is a comment like this in the configure.in - but
obviously nobody came around with a proper test for this ...
Volunteers welcome!
BTW, thanks for the numerous reports on this release!
"You" will be one of the major reasons for the next bugfix release ;-)
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Alexander Mai
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