Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.9.15 did not build on Solaris 8 and Solaris 9

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:59:55 -0700
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:37:18AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 Falk.Hayn@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Ethereal 0.9.15 detailed problem description:
> > 
> > Configure reports that sprint_realloc_objid is not found in -lsnmp
> > and unresolved symbols kstst_.... were reported
> > 
> > Root cause for thie behaviour is, that on Solaris8 and Solaris 9 
> > the lib kstat needs to be called with -lkstat
> 
> OK, this might be related to a change I made to have it build properly on 
> RH9.0 etc ... let me check on a Solaris machine ...

Probably.  I redid the stuff that handles all the extra libraries needed
to build with the SNMP libraries to have a loop where it tries various
"-L" and "-l" combinations; that appears to have fixed the configuration
on Solaris.