Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:46:33 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot find -ldl Message-ID: <0B30516EA3A817015C05C9D2@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060126171851.GC52542@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3EA9A5749CCE92F90AA269F4@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20060126171851.GC52542@dan.emsphone.com>
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--On Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:18:54 -0600 Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> 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? Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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