[1052] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
-lsocket, -lnsl, -ldbm, etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 26 08:50:33 1995
From: epeisach@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 08:50:27 -0500
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
I reported this before, but I would like to propose a solution...
IRIX 5.2 has a broken libsocket which is installed for sysv
compatibility. I.e. it may not be installed on all architectures... The
gethostbyname routine is the broken one...
Maybe, there should be a KRB5_NETLIBS definition in aclocal.m4 which
currently would currently be:
AC_CHECK_LIB(socket,main)
AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,main)
but could later be changed when O.S. particular brokenness are
discovered. Maybe, an option for adding in --with-net-lib= can be added
so machines with broken resolv libraries can include a fixed one.
For laughs, at the same time, there can be a definition of KRB5_DBM_LIB
which would be:
AC_CHECK_LIB(ndbm,main)
AC_CHECK_LIB(dbm,main)
but would later really be fixed to only link -ldbm if the ndbm routines
did not exist in libc... (I think it is silly to use -ldbm, when ndbm
routines are in use).
Again, by putting these in the top level aclocal.m4, global fixes can be
made easilly... I can provide a patch to doo all this if someone agrees
this would be good and would be willing to install it.
Ezra
