Re: [ns] nam build fails (cannot find -lnsl) on FreeBSD 4.4

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Shill wrote:

> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD cabernet.cs.ucla.edu 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct
> 10 13:03:42 PDT 2001    
> root@cabernet.cs.ucla.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMP  i386
> 
> The problem has already been documented:
> http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/archive/ns-users/webarch/current/msg02326.html

That 'current' is going to haunt us in the long term. Needs forcing to
a year...

I'd just delete -nsl from the makefile flags and see what happens.

L.
 
> I was trying to build nam as part of the ns-allinone-2.1b8 distribution.
> 
> c++   -o nam  tkcompat.o tkUnixInit.o xwd.o netview.o netmodel.o edge.o
> packet.o node.o main.o  trace.o queue.o drop.o animation.o agent.o
> feature.o  route.o transform.o paint.o state.o monitor.o anetmodel.o 
> random.o rng.o view.o graphview.o netgraph.o tracehook.o lan.o psview.o
> group.o editview.o tag.o address.o animator.o  wnetmodel.o nam_stream.o
> enetmodel.o testview.o parser.o  trafficsource.o gen/version.o
> gen/nam_tcl.o  -L/home/abalk/ns-allinone-2.1b8/tclcl-1.0b11 -ltclcl
> -L/home/abalk/ns-allinone-2.1b8/otcl-1.0a7 -lotcl
> -L/home/abalk/ns-allinone-2.1b8/lib -ltk8.3
> -L/home/abalk/ns-allinone-2.1b8/lib -ltcl8.3
> -L/home/abalk/ns-allinone-2.1b8/zlib-1.1.3 -lz  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext
> -lX11  -lnsl -lm
> /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lnsl
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /home/abalk/ns-allinone-2.1b8/nam-1.0a10.
> 
> Does anybody know what's wrong? Is a fix available?
> 
> Shill
> 
> 

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