Hi Rod On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Rod Butcher wrote:
> Hello sluggers, I'm trying to build hal (hardware abstraction layer) for > Gnome's volume manager for 2.8. It comes with "-lnsl" not found - what > is libnsl.so if it exists, or is this a script bug ? I can't get into > the freedesktop.org site (where hal lives) because it's been hacked... > so no info. > thanks > Rod A quick google shows that it is part of libc and is called Name Services Layer according to: http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/libnsl.htm Definition: libnsl: Name services library, a library of name service calls (getpwnam, getservbyname, etc...) on SVR4 Unixes. GNU libc uses this for the NIS (YP) and NIS+ functions. > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html On my RedHat 9 and Debian boxes it lives in /usr/lib -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
