"Marco Franzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On a new SCO box (i686-UnixWare7.1.0-sysv5), configure fails to find the
| library for passwd shadowing.
| It then configures as if there were no shadowing, and `su' fails to verify
| passwords.
|
| The correct link option is `-lgen'. Have configure check for it like this:
|
| --- configure~ Thu Mar 9 11:03:03 2000
| +++ configure Thu Mar 9 11:03:36 2000
...
Thanks.
I've fixed it for the next release.
The actual change is to the following file from which
the affected part of configure is generated.
Index: m4/lib-check.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/shellutils/m4/lib-check.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.5 -r1.6
--- m4/lib-check.m4 2000/02/09 11:57:55 1.5
+++ m4/lib-check.m4 2000/03/10 09:08:53 1.6
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#serial 2
+#serial 3
dnl Misc lib-related macros for fileutils, sh-utils, textutils.
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
AC_SEARCH_LIBS(yp_match, [sun ypsec])
# SysV needs -lsec, older versions of Linux need -lshadow for
- # shadow passwords.
- AC_SEARCH_LIBS(getspnam, [shadow sec])
+ # shadow passwords. UnixWare 7 needs -lgen.
+ AC_SEARCH_LIBS(getspnam, [shadow sec gen])
# Requirements for su.c.
AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct spwd.sp_pwdp))
