linking issues
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Sun May 22 21:09:02 CEST 2005
Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> What's the reason for linking in libmath and libnsl?
>
> Insofar as I know no functions in either nagios or any of the cgi's use
> any advanced math and should work well without it.
>
Except for statuswrl.c, which I don't build (meh the stupid). It seems
curious in the base dir though.
> libnsl is another library out of place. Perhaps it's needed by Sun and
> friends. On Linux (Fedora 3, Openwall current, Debian sarge) Nagios
> builds nicely without them, although I know Sun (and some others) have
> huge problems understanding any C-code at all without it. Perhaps -lnsl
> should be linked explicitly on those and dropped for other platforms?
>
This remains a mystery.
To remove the -lm stuff in base, you can apply the attached patch.
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Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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