Re: Failure to use -lnsl on Solaris with AC_CHECK_LIB

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Warren Young wrote:

> Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Well, Autoconf has never handled this automatically for anyone else.  :)
>
> 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.

Bob
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