Actually, it turns out that just removing res_search causes the RPM to fail to build on RHEL3.. So.. I think I need to take this route and search for both res_search and __res_search. I'm testing it now on EL3.. But then I suspect I'll have to go back and rebuild FC1,3,4. Feh!
-derek Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kurt Seiffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm trying to compile openafs 1.4.0rc4 from the SRPM's. I am trying >> this on both RHEL AS 3 and RHEL AS 4. > >> Openafs itself seems to compile OK but when the rpmbuild runs the >> configure script for afs-krb5 it gets the following error: > >> checking for res_search in -lresolv... no >> configure: error: Unable to find res_search function > > Yup, you're on AMD64. This is a problem specific to the AMD64 glibc > libraries. Basically, glibc on AMD64, but not on i386, hides res_search > in a way that still works for normal code but doesn't work for the way > Autoconf constructs its library probes (since it assumes that the code > being compiled has included the relevant header). > > The simple cheat is to search for __res_search instead, and in fact a > simple perl -i -pe 's/\bres_search\b/__res_search/g' configure will > generally fix it on that platform. > > The slightly more robust cheat is to change anything like: > > AC_SEARCH_LIBS([res_search], [resolv]) > > in configure.in or wherever to: > > AC_SEARCH_LIBS([res_search], [resolv], , > [AC_SEARCH_LIBS([__res_search], [resolv])]) > > The actually correct thing to do is to not use AC_SEARCH_LIBS and instead > use one of the other probe mechanisms that lets you force the inclusion of > an additional header in the library probe and then include arpa/nameser.h > and resolv.h. Autoconf doesn't provide a nice way to do this, > unfortunately, but the src/cf/ressearch.m4 file in OpenAFS defines a macro > that does the right thing. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
