Full_Name: Dagobert Michelsen
Version: 2.4.26
OS: Solaris 9
URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
Submission from: (NULL) (86.103.147.208)


During configure time on Solaris libnet.so is picked up. The autoconf code
either picks it up on BeOS (code looks correct) or for socket() to be seen here
in configure.in:

AC_CHECK_FUNC(socket, :, [
dnl hopefully we won't include too many libraries
        AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, main)
        AC_CHECK_LIB(net, main)
        AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl_s, main)
        AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, main)
        AC_CHECK_LIB(inet, socket)
        AC_CHECK_LIB(gen, main)
])

In addition to the system wide libnet.so on some systems there could be the
packet assembly library from PacketFactory now hosted at
https://github.com/sam-github/libnet be installed which is then unnecessarily
picked up. The autoconf-check seems to not check the presence of socket():

configure:13909: checking for main in -lnet
configure:13928: /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -o conftest -xO3 -m32 -xarch=v8
-I/opt/csw/bdb48/include -I/opt/csw/include -m32 -xarch=v8 -L/opt/csw/bdb48/lib
-L/opt/csw/lib -R/opt/csw/bdb48/lib -R/opt/csw/lib conftest.c -lnet  -lsocket 
>&5
"conftest.c", line 81: warning: statement not reached
configure:13928: $? = 0
configure:13937: result: yes

It would be more precise if AC_CHECK_LIB would check the presence of the socket
function call.