Re: Failure to use -lnsl on Solaris with AC_CHECK_LIB

[Russ Allbery]

Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Warren Young wrote:

>> I don't do any specific checks for libnsl currently, yet it gets linked
>> automatically when build the program on Linux, at least.  How is that
>> need discovered, if not automatically by autoconf?  I also see it
>> picking up other libraries, too, like zlib.  Is it somehow chasing
>> library dependencies?

> Are you sure that Linux even offers a libnsl?  I doubt it.

windlord:~> ls /lib/libnsl*
/lib/libnsl-2.3.5.so  /lib/libnsl.so.1@
windlord:~> dpkg -S /lib/libnsl-2.3.5.so
libc6: /lib/libnsl-2.3.5.so

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>