From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 15 14:44:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B7AC37B66D for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 14:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.hell.gr (patr530-a204.otenet.gr [212.205.215.204]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e9FLgph02078 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:42:51 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 274 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Oct 2000 13:14:07 -0000 Message-ID: <20001015131407.273.qmail@localhost.hell.gr> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 16:14:07 +0300 To: leoric@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is -lipc? References: <39E4B02E.792E9F6B@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39E4B02E.792E9F6B@home.com>; from leoric@home.com on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:23:42PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:23:42PM -0500, leoric@home.com wrote: > In the Makefile for Eagle BBS there is a section called "special libs". > It says that if you are using Freebsd you need to add -lipc to the end > as well as -lcrypt and -lcompat. When I tried to compile it gave me an > error saying: > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lipc The program was made for some version of FreeBSD that required you to link against libipc.so in order to use IPC functions (IPC stands for Inter-Process Communication). > I then went into the make file and removed it and attempted to compile > again and it worked fine. After getting the BBS going I noticed > that all the connections to it were reported as comming from local > host. Does this have anything to do with -lipc? What is -lipc and how > should I deal with this? I do not have access to my local copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository now, so I will let somebody else answer what libipc was and why it's not required to link against it now. I can guess however that IPC functions are now a part of FreeBSD's libc and you are not required to use -lipc anymore :-) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message