On Nov 28 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> -lnsl is needed on SVR4 derivatives, like Solaris and UnixWare. it is
> the network services library.
> You'll needed it for ANY socket based code on these platforms.
Is there any specific function symbol we can test for in that library?
If it exports something like socket() or connect() on SVR4, we can make
configure probe for that instead of blindly including the library.
libsocket requires libnsl:
$ dump -Lv /usr/lib/libsocket.so|more
/usr/lib/libsocket.so:
**** DYNAMIC SECTION INFORMATION ****
[INDEX] Tag Value
.dynamic:
[1] NEEDED /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
[2] INIT 0xba30
[3] SONAME /usr/lib/libsocket.so.2
[4] HASH 0xa0
[5] STRTAB 0x22bc
[6] SYMTAB 0x95c
[7] STRSZ 0x1229
[8] SYMENT 0x10
[9] PLTGOT 0xec2c
[10] PLTSZ 0x4b8
[11] PLTREL 0x11
[12] JMPREL 0x36d0
[13] REL 0x34e8
[14] RELSZ 0x1e8
.....
So, Is there a configure check for stuff like that?
LER
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