[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2523) Error while compiling

["Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Jason Short via RT wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:07, Bernd Korz via RT wrote:
> >
> > depfile='.deps/civserver.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/civserver.TPo' \
> > depmode=none /bin/sh ../depcomp \
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./../common -I./../ai -I../intl    -
> > g -O2 -Wall -Wno-multichar -c `test -f 'civserver.c' || echo './
> > '`civserver.c
> > gcc  -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-multichar  -x none -o civserver  civserver.o ../
> > common/libcivcommon.a ../ai/libcivai.a ./libcivserver.a  ../common/
> > libcivcommon.a ../ai/libcivai.a ./libcivserver.a -lsocket  -lz
> > ./common/libcivcommon.a(netintf.o): In function `net_lookup_service':
> > /boot/home/Entwicklung/Sourcecodes/freeCIV/freeciv/common/
> > netintf.c:184: undefined reference to `__inet_addr'
> > /boot/home/Entwicklung/Sourcecodes/freeCIV/freeciv/common/
> > netintf.c:188: undefined reference to `gethostbyname'
> > /libcivserver.a(sernet.o): In function `server_accept_connection':
> > /boot/home/Entwicklung/Sourcecodes/freeCIV/freeciv/server/sernet.c:707:
> > undefined reference to `gethostbyaddr'
> > /boot/home/Entwicklung/Sourcecodes/freeCIV/freeciv/server/sernet.c:736:
> > undefined reference to `__inet_ntoa'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[2]: *** [civserver] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/boot/home/Entwicklung/Sourcecodes/freeCIV/
> > freeciv/server'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/boot/home/Entwicklung/Sourcecodes/freeCIV/
> > freeciv'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > $
>
> He forgot to mention this is while compiling on BeOS.
>
> Evidently some autoconf work is needed, but I'm not sure how to get
> around using these functions.

The functions are there... or the system header files would be REALLY broken.
You just need to link to the respective library.

The problem is BeOS has 2 networking API's: Network Kit and BONE. The
Network Kit is broken and buggy (or so I heard). BONE was never actually
released because Be was working on it when it went belly up. But some
people use leaked beta versions of BeOS that have BONE.

About BONE:
http://www.befaqs.com/mirror/classic-be/aboutbe/benewsletter/volume_IV/Issue05.html#Insight

I can't do anything until I know if he is using BONE or not. Even then I am not
certain we should be wasting our time supporting broken APIs on dead OSes.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa