Re: getaddrinfo needs a special library

[Simon Josefsson]

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 01:49 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> I propose this change to the getaddrinfo module with two effects:
> 
>   - Allow package maintainers to decide which programs to link with -lsocket
>     (on Solaris) or -lws2_32 (on native Windows). Not all programs in a
>     package need to link with the library that contains getaddrinfo.
>     The patch defines a variable GETADDRINFO_LIB. Maintainers who don't want
>     want to use this variable per-program can, of course, add it to $LIBS.
> 
>   - Port to Haiku: on Haiku, it's -lnetwork which is needed. And on BeOS,
>     it's -lnet.
> 
> OK to commit this?

Yes please!

/Simon