I am working on wine for Solaris, and the configure.ac segment at the bottom of the post that searches for functions looks like this (I combined the single line functions in AC_CHECK_FUNCS to mulitple entries per line to be more readable). I've found that the following functions are not found: connect, getaddrinfo, gethostbyname, getnameinfo, getnetbyname, getprotobyname, getprotobynumber, get servbyport, inet_aton, inet_network, sendmsg. The three specific checks for "Solaris" find the libraries, but don't set the appropriate HAVE_<function-name> variables in config.h. After lots of trial and error, comments, and research, I came up with adding the following before the AC_CHECK_FUNCS test. AC_CHECK_LIB(resolv,inet_aton) AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,gethostent) AC_SEARCH_LIBS(socket, socket, , [AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, socket, LIBS="$LIBS -lsocket -lnsl", , -lsocket)]) and then modify the post Solaris checks like: - AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,gethostbyname) + AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,gethostbyname,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME,1)]) + AC_CHECK_LIB(socket,connect) + AC_CHECK_LIB(socket,connect,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CONNECT,1)]) According to the config.log, gethostbyname and connect in the both original and my modified configure.ac fail to define those funtions. The original configure.ac found -lnsl and -lsocket, but the functions were not enabled. So I modified the post AC_CHECK_FUNCS solaris tests for gethostbyname and connect, and this works. The dilemma? One of the maintainer claims that the the AC_SEARCH_LIBS for socket enables "-lsocket" for more than Solaris. As I'm not an autoconf guru, someone suggested I post here for suggestions? Thanks, Ben ORIGINAL Snippet: ----------------------------------- AC_CHECK_FUNCS( _pclose _popen _snprintf _spawnvp _stricmp _strnicmp _vsnprintf asctime_r chsize \ clone connect dlopen epoll_create ffs finite fork fpclass fstatfs fstatvfs ftruncate futimes \ futimesat getaddrinfo getdirentries gethostbyname getnameinfo getnetbyname getopt_long \ getpagesize getprotobyname getprotobynumber getpwuid getservbyport gettid gettimeofday \ getuid inet_aton inet_network kqueue lstat memmove mmap pclose poll popen prctl pread \ pwrite readlink rfork sched_yield select sendmsg setrlimit settimeofday sigaltstack sigprocmask \ snprintf spawnvp statfs statvfs strcasecmp strerror strncasecmp strtold tcgetattr timegm \ usleep vsnprintf wait4 waitpid ) dnl Check for -ldl if test "$ac_cv_func_dlopen" = no then AC_CHECK_LIB(dl,dlopen,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_DLOPEN,1) AC_SUBST(LIBDL,"-ldl")]) fi WINE_CHECK_LIB_FUNCS(dladdr,[$LIBDL]) dnl Check for -lpoll for Mac OS X/Darwin if test "$ac_cv_func_poll" = no then AC_CHECK_LIB(poll,poll,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_POLL,1) AC_SUBST(LIBPOLL,"-lpoll")]) fi dnl Check for -lnsl for Solaris if test "$ac_cv_func_gethostbyname" = no then AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,gethostbyname) fi dnl Check for -lsocket for Solaris if test "$ac_cv_func_connect" = no then AC_CHECK_LIB(socket,connect) fi dnl Check for -lresolv for Solaris if test "$ac_cv_func_inet_aton" = no then AC_CHECK_LIB(resolv,inet_aton) fi _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf