From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 20:12:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B500916A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:12:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8A843D45 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:12:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id k0QKCnN3049487; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:12:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:12:49 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Paul Schmehl Message-ID: <20060126201248.GE52542@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3EA9A5749CCE92F90AA269F4@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20060126171851.GC52542@dan.emsphone.com> <0B30516EA3A817015C05C9D2@utd59514.utdallas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0B30516EA3A817015C05C9D2@utd59514.utdallas.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot find -ldl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:12:50 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 26), Paul Schmehl said: > --On Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:18:54 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Jan 26), Paul Schmehl said: > >>I'm fiddling with an app that was probably written for/on Linux. > >>It configures fine, but when I make, I get the error "cannot find > >>-ldl". Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for libldl? A workaround? A > >>library that I'm missing? > > > >It's not needed on FreeBSD. The dlopen family of functions is in > >libc. The configure script should probably have something like this > >in it so it only uses libdl if it can't find dlopen with its current > >set of libs:: > > > >AC_SEARCH_LIBS(dlopen, dl) > > Dan, you're referring to configure.in, right? There's no AC_SEARCH > in that at all. Do I just need to add a line? If so, does it matter > where I add it? Ya, configure.{in,ac}. It doesn't matter much where it goes; at the bottom is probably safest. You will also need to remove any hardcoded "-ldl" strings from Makefile.{in,am}. Configure will add "-ldl" to $LIBS if it turns out to be required. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com