[SunHELP] Basic port programming

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

| Hello all,
| 	Trying to do some basic port programming and build on just a small
| piece of code so I can understand it.  My solaris box is giving me a bit
| of headache.  I'm taking, which runs fine under linux and cygwin and
| compile it - it has other ideas.  Here are the errors I'm getting:
| bash-2.03$ gcc getip.c
| Undefined                       first referenced
|  symbol                             in file
| gethostbyname                       /var/tmp/cctNqaTN.o
| inet_ntoa                           /var/tmp/cctNqaTN.o
| herror                              /var/tmp/cctNqaTN.o
| ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to a.out
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

The socket man page would tell you that you need to link against two
libraries: libsocket and libnsl

/dale