[JDEV] Jabber server on Solaris

[Koichi Moriyama]

The following issue (to build jserver for Solaris) has been solved --
it was just my easy-mistake.

Thanks.

--
Koichi Moriyama (morimori at cc.gatech.edu)

P.S. I'm still working on jserver (on Linux) for the isolated network
without DNS.


From: Koichi Moriyama <morimori at cc.gatech.edu>
Subject: [JDEV] Jabber server on Solaris
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:05:28 -0400 (EDT)

> Dear Jabber developers,
> 
> Although I wrote a question about jserver and etherxd in the last mail,
> this is another question - a little more simple and should be easy for
> someone.
> 
> Does anyone succeed to build a Jabber server (jserver) on Solaris, and
> do you execute it (on Solaris) ?
> 
> I tried to build a Jabber server on Solaris yesterday, but I met a
> problem when I build libetherx.a.  The situation is as follows:
> 
>   1. building libxode-1.0 - succeeded
>   2. building libjabber-1.0 - succeeded
>   3. buliding libetherx-1.0
>     3.1 libpth is required - pth-1.3.7 is fetched and built - succeeded 
>     3.2 libadns is required - adns-0.8 is fetched and built - succeeded
>     3.3 again, tried to build libetherx-1.0, 'configure' still says that
>         libadns seems not to be installed yet...
> 
> I read the "configure" for libetherx-1.0 and I found it tries to build
> a small test program that call adns_init() (to link with libadns), and
> it failed.  Actually, I also wrote a small program to use libadns, but
> I cannot build it.  It says as follow:
> 
>     % gcc -L<appropriate lib path> -ladns main.c
>     /tmp/ccMtkcZI.o: In function `main':
>     /tmp/ccMtkcZI.o(.text+0x4): undefined reference to `adns_init'
>     collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I'm doubting either my knowledge about dynamic library for Solaris, or
> a packaging of libadns.  Regarding the latter one, I found a little
> straing thing: other libraries, such as libxode and libpth, have *.la
> which describes the libraries' spec. and it corresponds to file names.
> e.g.
> 
>     # Names of this library.
>     library_names='libxode.so.1.0.0 libxode.so.1 libxode.so'
>     ... omit ...
> 
>     # Version information for libxode.
>     current=1
>     age=0
>     revision=0
> 
> libadns doesn't have such a file.  Is it the reason ?
> 
> Anyway, I'd like to setup a Jabber server on Solaris somehow, since
> I'm leaving the College and has to keep the system on the college's
> property, which is Solaris.
> 
> Any helps are very appreciated,
> 
> --
> Koichi Moriyama (morimori at cc.gatech.edu)
> 
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