Re: autoconf on Solaris 8

[ti chi]

I can't thank you enough for your help - you saved me much grief!

- Ti

 Lars Hecking <address@hidden> wrote:

ti chi writes:
>
> nm libsresolv.so | grep hstrerror reveals

Note: libresolv.

> [1622]| 155404| 92|FUNC |GLOB |0 |9 |hstrerror
>
> - Ti
> ti chi wrote:
> I ran autoconf on Solaris 8 with the AC_CHECK_FUNCS(... hstrerror ...) and it says that hstrerror is not supported. So then, I defined an hstrerror structure but then the compiler complains "netdb.h: previous declaration of hstrerror"
>
> Seems that autoconf is returning a false negative on Solaris 8 - what steps can I take to further isolate this issue?

You are using the wrong configure test. AC_CHECK_FUNCS() looks for functions
only in the libraries that are currently in $LIBS (and libc). Use AC_CHECK_LIB
instead.

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