Re: [htdig] 3.2.0b3 on freebsd

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Phil Glatz:
> I've gotten 3.1.5 to work on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE ok, but when I try to run 
> the same configure command on 3.2.0b3, I'm getting an error about the 
> socket library:
> 
> configure:2982: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall   conftest.c -lsocket   1>&5
> /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lsocket
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 2971 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
> /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
>      builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
> 
> any workarounds?

I get the same failure in my config.log on Red Hat 6.2, but the configure
still works.  The failure is just for that specific test.  That's what
configure does.  It checks to see which options work and which fail on
your system, and the logs report all the results.

To find the REAL reason that configure or make failed on your system,
rather than just the failure of a non-critical test, you need to look
at the error messages from the stdout of configure and make.

However, instead of wasting time with the buggy 3.2.0b3, I'd recommend
getting the latest 3.2.0b4 development snapshot, which is a fair bit
more solid.  http://www.htdig.org/files/snapshots/

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