On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 01:51:48PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> As evidenced in config.mak.uname and configure.ac, there are various
> possible scenarios where these libraries are default-enabled in the
> build, which mainly boils down to: SunOS. -lresolv is simply not the
> only library that, when it exists, probably needs to be linked to for
> networking.
>
> Check for and add -lnsl -lsocket as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> meson.build | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 8037e536dd..8fad10379a 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -1080,10 +1080,11 @@ if host_machine.system() == 'windows'
> networking_dependencies += winsock
> endif
> else
> - libresolv = compiler.find_library('resolv', required: false)
> - if libresolv.found()
> - networking_dependencies += libresolv
> - endif
> + networking_dependencies += [
> + compiler.find_library('nsl', required: false),
> + compiler.find_library('resolv', required: false),
> + compiler.find_library('socket', required: false),
> + ]
> endif
> libgit_dependencies += networking_dependencies
Fair. We could extend this check to verify which combination of
libraries we actually require to make desired functions available. But
I'm not sure whether that would really be worth the effort.
Patrick
