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

[Shill <fake@verizon.net>]

>> 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...

Wow... I have *no idea* what these sentences mean :)

Could you explain?

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

/home/abalk/ns-allinone-2.1b8/lib/libtcl8.3.a(tclUnixPipe.o): In
function `TclpCreateTempFile':
tclUnixPipe.o(.text+0xee): warning: tmpnam() possibly used unsafely;
consider using mkstemp()

Aside from this warning, it works.

Any idea why ./configure doesn't detect the absence of libnsl?

Shill