Thank you Bob for that very useful bit of knowledge. John Ling
----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen > > > >