On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:09:58PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: > Jens-Uwe Mager writes: > > > > The attached patch adds support to configure for linking in the SOCKS > > library. The configure script must be regenerated using autoconf after > > applying this patch. > > I made a similar patch long ago but abandoned it since the existence of > runsocks and SocksCap seemed to obviate the need for it. Is there > really any need to link with SOCKS rather than just invoking it at > runtime? There also doesn't seem to be any demand -- you're the only > other person I've seen even mention it here.
There are some platforms, notably AIX that do not support a feature like LD_PRELOAD to enable runsocks to work. There is no way to make socks support to work other than linking it in into the main executable statically. I also do work on AIX quite often, and I had to add socks support every time to be able to access open source repositories via the pserver protocol across the corporate firewall. I could imagine that MacOS X could make use of it as well, the MacOS X dynamic linker is a very strange beast. -- Jens-Uwe Mager <pgp-mailto:62CFDB25> <jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
