Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:52:33 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, "Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com>, "'Gurudatt Shenoy'" <gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <36CCEE11.7CFDBB98@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902182020030.254-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, and the man pages should and usually do document which external
> > > libraries are needed.
> >
> > Not usually the ones that reside in libc, no, I haven't ever noticed
> > that. I used to have to go looking with nm, when I was new to bsd.
> > Certainly none of these do, and it's pretty common for other OSs to need
> > net libs. I wasn't trying to be critical, but the advice offered no
> > help.
>
> But if you don't give gcc any libraries to link with, by default it will
> at least link in libc, right? So one could implicitly assume that if the
> man page mentions no other libraries, it's in libc. Mostly, I've found
> this to be true.
You are correct, sir; if a library is not mentioned in the man page that
implies the function is in libc (or, in some cases, libc_r). If it is not,
please submit a PR.
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