Re: Solaris and socket library

[jling]

Thank you Bob for that very useful bit of knowledge.

John Ling


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, January 16, 2004 5:14 pm
Subject: Re: Solaris and socket library

> This is an Autoconf issue, not Automake.  Adding the following 
> line to
> your configure.ac file will likely resolve the problem:
> 
>  AC_SEARCH_LIBS([connect],[socket],[],[],[])
> 
> It should add -lsocket to LIBS if necessary.
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, John Ling wrote:
> 
> > I am running on Solaris and I was trying to compile an 
> application that
> > used the libmysqlclient.a library.
> >
> > I encountered an error:
> >
> > Undefined                       first referenced
> >  symbol                             in file
> > socket
> > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o)
> > getpeername
> > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o)
> > setsockopt
> > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o)
> > getservbyname
> > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o)
> > getsockopt
> > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o)
> > shutdown
> > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o)
> > connect
> > /usr/local/mysql4/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o)
> > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors.
> >
> >
> > Now the solution was to add a -lsocket to the linking options.
> > But, should this not be something that autoconf or automake 
> suite of
> > tools detect and automatically handle for me?  Do I need to 
> manually add
> > this only when I run on Solaris?
> >
> > Now that I do need to handle this.  Where is the best place to 
> check the
> > OS environment variable to see if I need to set this as a variable
> > somewhere.  I wanted to do something like:
> >
> > ifeq ($(OSTYPE),solaris)
> >       export SOCKET = -lsocket
> > endif
> >
> > Do I do this in configure.in somehow or in Makefile.am?  Is 
> there a
> > better way anyone can suggest.  I would think something like 
> this is a
> > common problem to handle.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Ling
> >
> >
> >
> 
> ======================================
> Bob Friesenhahn
> address@hidden
> http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
> 
> 
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