On Nov 28 2005, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Pulling those out is just not a good idea; we'd never have included them
> in the first place if they weren't needed on some platforms. A lot of
> these system libraries are very hard to test for in a reasonable way.
> For instance, IIRC the reason libBSD is needed on HP-UX is that it
> provides POSIX-compatible signal behavior. The same functions exist in
> libc ... but they work differently :-(
Yeah, but pulling them in when they're not needed is a waste also. I'm
sure that a lot of platforms have -lnsl but I doubt many need it given
it's for NIS/YP support. libBSD doesn't bother me as much because it's
not going to exist on 99% of platforms.
-lnsl is needed on SVR4 derivatives, like Solaris and UnixWare. it is the
network services library.
You'll needed it for ANY socket based code on these platforms.
LER
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