linking issues

[Andreas Ericsson]

sean finney wrote:
> hey andreas,
> 
> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:25:44PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> i believe there's an autoconf macro that can determine whether or not
> the libraries are necessary.

Nah. autoconf only determines if libraries are necessary for certain 
functions. For nagios, -lnsl isn't required on Linux. To the best of my 
knowledge it isn't required on *BSD either, but I'm not certain. What I 
was curious about was on which platforms it is actually required, or if 
it could be dropped entirely (as I believe).

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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