Re: Failure to use -lnsl on Solaris with AC_CHECK_LIB

[Warren Young]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> AC_SEARCH_LIBS([gethostbyname], [nsl])
> AC_SEARCH_LIBS([socket], [socket], ,
>     [AC_CHECK_LIB([nsl], [socket], LIBS="$LIBS -lsocket -lnsl", , -lsocket)])

A macro based on this code is now in the Autoconf Macro Archive:

        http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/lib_socket_nsl.html

Thanks to Russ for providing the core code!