Closed Bug 268847 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Not linking with -lnsl. configure script detetects its need correctly. Build fails on gethostbyname

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Sun
SunOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: pierrot, Assigned: bryner)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020921 Netscape/7.0
Build Identifier: firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2

The configure script detects correctly that it needs to link with -lnsl for
gethostbyname to work. This result doesn't seem to get propagated to the
appropriate LDFLAGS though, since the build fails in directory
./mozilla/OBJ-mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/unix/wizard when linking is
tried with -lsocket alone.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1: .mozconfig:
. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/OBJ-mozilla
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --disable-test

ac_add_options --enable-calendar
ac_add_options --enable-xinerama
ac_add_options --enable-js-ultrasparc
ac_add_options --enable-xterm-updates
ac_add_options --prefix=/opt/csw
ac_add_options --with-gtk-prefix=/opt/csw
#ac_add_options --enable-native-uconv
ac_add_options --disable-freetype2

2. Environment:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/csw/lib/pkgconfig
LDFLAGS=-L/opt/csw/lib -R/opt/csw/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/csw/include

3. gmake distclean ; ksh ../configure ; gmake -j SHELL=ksh

Actual Results:  
configure output:
checking for gethostbyname... (cached) no
checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... (cached) yes
checking for connect... (cached) no
checking for connect in -lsocket... (cached) yes

Make bailing: (whitespace compressed to shorten lines)
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
gethostbyaddr  ../../../../../dist/lib/libxpnet_s.a(nsSocket.o)  (symbol belongs
to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
gethostbyname  ../../../../../dist/lib/libxpnet_s.a(nsSocket.o)  (symbol belongs
to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
inet_addr      ../../../../../dist/lib/libxpnet_s.a(nsSocket.o)  (symbol belongs
to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to mozilla-installer-bin

Temporary fix:
For simplicity -lnsl was added to the LDFLAGS at the local subdirectory Makefile
and compilation restarted. 

Expected Results:  
Use configure result to
include -lnsl every time -lsocket is used.
Summary: Not linking with -lnsl. configure script detetects its need correctly. Build fails on gethostbyent → Not linking with -lnsl. configure script detetects its need correctly. Build fails on gethostbyname
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
Component: Build Config → General
Product: Firefox → Firefox Build System
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