Yes, I actually have a libwsock32 because my
system has wine on it. Wine is a windows
emulator.
So the assumption that any system with that
file is a windows system will break on
systems with windows emulators.
It sounds like Joe's guess on this was right.
--elein
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:29:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> elein <elein@norcov.com> writes:
> > configure knows it is a linux box.
> > Should it be trying to link to libwsock32.so
> > or not? If this is a legitimate link, then
> > the problem is different than if it is trying
> > to link it in erroneously.
>
> configure is unconditionally including libwsock32 if it can find one.
> AFAICT from the CVS logs, this was only expected to happen on win32
> (Bruce, that was your commit, configure.in v1.250; please confirm).
> So it would probably make sense to not look for libwsock32 unless
> PORTNAME is "win32".
>
> I take it you actually have a libwsock32? What's it supposed to do?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
