[AIX/IBMers read] Re: AIX and Privsep.

[Tim Rice]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Darren Tucker wrote:

> It doesn't work on 4.2.1, because it doesn't get compiled in. Configure
> doesn't define WITH_AIXAUTHENTICATE because authenticate() is in libs.a
> which isn't linked. Seting LDFLAGS="-ls" before running configure
> defines WITH_AIXAUTHENTICATE and lockout works OK.
>
> The existing configure.ac works on 4.3.3 authenticate() is in libc.a
> too.
>
> What's the consensus?

Fix configure.ac
Does the attached patch work?

> a) Do nothing and make people using 4.2.1 set LDFLAGS themselves.
> b) Add "-ls" to LDFLAGS for AIX in configure.ac. This works on 4.[23]
> but I'm not sure about 5.1.
>
>

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Tim Rice				Multitalents	(707) 887-1469
tim at multitalents.net


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--- configure.ac.old	Mon Jul  1 13:38:23 2002
+++ configure.ac	Thu Jul  4 18:46:54 2002
@@ -71,7 +71,12 @@
 		)
 		LDFLAGS="$saved_LDFLAGS"
 	fi
-	AC_CHECK_FUNC(authenticate, [AC_DEFINE(WITH_AIXAUTHENTICATE)])
+	AC_CHECK_FUNC(authenticate, [AC_DEFINE(WITH_AIXAUTHENTICATE)],
+		[AC_CHECK_LIB(libs,authenticate,
+			[AC_DEFINE(WITH_AIXAUTHENTICATE)
+			LIBS="$LIBS -ls"
+			])
+		])
 	AC_DEFINE(BROKEN_GETADDRINFO)
 	AC_DEFINE(BROKEN_REALPATH)
 	dnl AIX handles lastlog as part of its login message