[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: building GMT: warnings and unresolved references: xdr_enum

This archive contains answers to questions sent to Unidata support through mid-2025. Note that the archive is no longer being updated. We provide the archive for reference; many of the answers presented here remain technically correct, even if somewhat outdated. For the most up-to-date information on the use of NSF Unidata software and data services, please consult the Software Documentation first.

  • Subject: Re: building GMT: warnings and unresolved references: xdr_enum
  • Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:29:56 -0600
Javier,

>Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:55:56 +0100 (WET DST)
>From: Javier Maldonado Miranda <address@hidden>
>Organization: Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: building GMT: warnings and unresolved references: xdr_enum 
>Keywords: 199810211426.IAA04938

In the above message, you wrote:

> Thank you for your help. You were right and after changing the option
> XDR= -lnsl the program compiled perfectly (although, the old warning
> continued appearing).

Great!

> What I want to ask is you how do you know that
> the name of the network support libray is nsl ?.

Experience.  :-)

Seriously, because of the work I do, I have to know that kind of stuff.

> I've been looking for that directory and it doesn't exits.

"-lnsl" references the libraries "/usr/lib/libnsl.a" and
"/usr/lib/libnsl.so".  To see what's in them, do the following:

    ar tv /usr/lib/libnsl.a
    nm -g /usr/lib/libnsl.a
    nm -g /usr/lib/libnsl.so

--------
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>