[asterisk-dev] Why -lnsl in IKSEMEL_LIB ?

Kevin P. Fleming kpfleming at digium.com
Tue Nov 7 11:40:22 MST 2006


Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> i suppose the only way to see is try, on a linux box with iksemel,
> removing the various libs (-lnsl -lz -lcrypt) and see if it
> still links (there are no headers involved so the problem
> can only be there).

Because of Linux' support for shared-library-dependencies, these may not
be needed at all. We frequently run into issues on other platforms
though, where we do have to specify sub-library dependencies because the
platform can't do it for us, so this may have been a 'safety' measure.


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