Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 16:14:07 +0300 From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: leoric@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is -lipc? Message-ID: <20001015131407.273.qmail@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <39E4B02E.792E9F6B@home.com>; from leoric@home.com on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:23:42PM -0500 References: <39E4B02E.792E9F6B@home.com>
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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
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