Re: Comment on inetutils-1.9.4.90

[Simon Josefsson]

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> writes:

> I'm pleased to report that I got successful builds and installations
> today on 14 different systems for inetutils-1.9.4.90 (x86_64 unless
> otherwise noted):
>
>       CentOS 5 IA-64 (Intel Itanium)
>       CentOS 5, 6, 7, 8
>       Debian 7.11 MIPS R5000 (SGI Octane O2)
>       macOS 10.3.6 (High Sierra)
>       Oracle 7 and 8
>       RedHat 8
>       Ubuntu 20.04

Wonderful, thanks for testing!

> I got failures on Solaris 10 and 11 systems, however:
>
> Oracle Solaris 11.4 X86 (Assembled 18 December 2020) updated with
> latest Oracle patches yesterday:
>
>                 CCLD     hostname
>       ld: fatal: library -lutil: not found

Can you send ./configure output?  I found the following code in
./configure.ac that looks broken -- there is no check that -lutil exists
or works before it is added.  I am thinking this is the code that
incorrectly activate -lutil on that system.  We have gnulib's pty so I
think all this code should be removed and we should use $PTY_LIB
instead.

# FreeBSD 9.0 has changed access to wtmp system, abolishing
# logout(), logwtmp(), etcetera.  We need to use LIBUTIL
# for rpl_openpty() and forkpty() in libgnu.a.
if test "$ac_cv_func_login_tty" = yes \
   || test "$ac_cv_have_decl_openpty" = yes; then
  # Make sure that linking contains `-lutil'.
  if test -z "$LIBUTIL"; then
    LIBUTIL=-lutil
  fi
fi

> Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 s10x_u9wos_14a X86 (Assembled 11 August 2010):
>
>       FAIL: tftp.sh
>       FAIL: syslogd.sh
>       FAIL: inetd.sh

Please send tests/*.log for these.

/Simon

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