Re: [msmtp-users] Build problem on Solaris

[Eur Ing Chris Green <cl@...98...>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:19:51PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 05:57:32PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:18:26PM +0100, Martin Lambers wrote:
> > > On Fri, 16. Feb 2007, 16:02:07 +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to build msmtp on a Solaris 2.6 system, but I'm getting the
> > > > following compile error:-
> > > > 
> > > >     gcc  -g -O2   -o msmtp conf.o list.o msmtp.o  net.o netrc.o smtp.o stream.o  tools.o ../gnulib/libgnu.a -lposix4  -lsocket -lnsl
> > > >     Undefined                       first referenced
> > > >      symbol                             in file
> > > >      hstrerror                           net.o
> > > >     ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to msmtp
> > > >     collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > >     *** Error code 1
> > > >     make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `msmtp'
> > > >     Current working directory /proj/chris/msmtp-1.4.10/src
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone have any idea how to work around this?
> > > 
> > > Try 
> > > $ ./configure LIBS="-lresolv" 
> > > to force linking against libresolv.
> > > 
> > > Could you send me your config.log? Configure should have added -lresolv
> > > automatically...
> > > 
> > That isn't the problem, while running ./configure I see:-
> > 
> >     checking for hstrerror... no
> >     checking for hstrerror in -lresolv... no
> > 
> > There isn't a hstrerror in Solaris 2.6.  It's on our Solaris 2.8
> > systems though (not sure about 2.7, we don't have any).
> > 
> ... actually it's not as simple as that.  There is no hstrerror
> *documented* in Solaris 2.6 but there is one is the libraries, maybe
> it's a Sun patch has added it.
> 
> I.e.:-
> 
>      nm /usr/lib/libresolv.so | grep hstrerror
>      [55]    |     11752|      84|FUNC |LOCL |0    |11     |hstrerror
> 
Silly me - it's LOCL function so not available.  So hstrerror really
*isn't* available on Solaris 2.6.

I might just try copying the libresolv.so from one of our 2.8 systems
and see if I can build against that.  It's odds on that it will fall
in a crumpled heap because of dependencies but it's worth a try.

-- 
Chris Green