when SOCKS5 is in the USE variable, BitchX-1.0.19-r1 fails to emerge (while trying to run configure) DISPLAY: checking for SOCKSconnect in -lsocks5... no configure: error: cannot find SOCKS5 CONFIG.LOG: (nothing more informative, but included for completeness) configure:11846: checking whether to enable SOCKS support configure:11863: result: yes configure:11903: i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -march=i586 -O3 -pipe conftest.c -lsocks5 -lncurses -lssl -lm -lcrypt -lres /usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lsocks5 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:11906: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: #line 11877 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" SOLUTION HACK: by removing SOCKS5 from the USE variable, emerge-ing bitchx, then adding it again, bitchx emerges just fine. PROBLEM WITH HACK: SOCKS5 support doesnt get built into bitchx ;)
I find this quite odd... I can't find the socks library anywhere is portage.
Ben, any thoughts?
any idea on where to find a SOCKS5 library ? google/freshmeat both hit up http://www.socks.nec.com/cgi-bin/download.pl ... but they are for non-commerical use only, and dont have a direct d/l site that i can find (call me a communist but i dont want to fill out my information and wait for them to call me)
Well... LinuxApps.com has been a long-time friend of mine... And as it turns out, we have 'Dante' in portage... * net-misc/dante Latest version Available: 1.1.12 Homepage: http://www.inet.no/dante/ Description: A free socks4,5 and msproxy implemetation There is also net-misc/tsocks, but that's only a transparent socks4 lib.
emerged dante (i thought i already had, oh well ... guess we need a dependency in the ebuild for it now) didnt have a problem went to compile bitchx, it died config.log bitches about same problem as before: configure:11903: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -march=i686 -O3 -pipe conftest.c -lsocks5 -lncurses -lssl -lm -lcrypt -lresolv -lssl -lcrypto >&5 /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lsocks5 in the configure script it uses '-lsocks5' ... dante installs as libsocks.so and libdsocks.so rux0r BitchX # grep -n -- -lsocks configure 11872: echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for SOCKSconnect in -lsocks5" >&5 11873:echo $ECHO_N "checking for SOCKSconnect in -lsocks5... $ECHO_C" >&6 11878:LIBS="-lsocks5 $LIBS" 11928: LIBS="-lsocks5 $LIBS" 11945: echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Rconnect in -lsocks" >&5 11946:echo $ECHO_N "checking for Rconnect in -lsocks... $ECHO_C" >&6 11951:LIBS="-lsocks $LIBS" 12001: LIBS="-lsocks $LIBS" changed the 2 references from -lsocks5 to -lsocks by hand to see if this would fix problem configure died again, this time config.log said: /var/tmp/portage/bitchx-1.0.19-r1/work/BitchX/configure:11895: undefined reference to `SOCKSconnect' /usr/lib/libsocks.so: undefined reference to `checkmodule' changing the 2 references from -lsocks5 to -ldsocks results in same error what you guys think ?
i did cave in and send http://www.socks.nec.com/cgi-bin/download.pl an e-mail. they responded with a location to d/l their library d/l-ed it, compiled it, and copied the libsocks5.a file to /usr/lib that allowed bitchx to compile just fine with socks support ... the only problem i have with this library is: http://www.socks.nec.com/socksfaq.html#q0 <p>2. Can I use the reference software in a business environment? No. SOCKS reference software is available free of charge for NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY (academic, research, and personal use). All other usage requires licensing.</p> this would require setting up a portage system with the same kind of thing that deb has ... a set of utilities that anyone can use for free, and a set of utilities that anyone non-commerical can use for free
firstly -r2 supercedes -r1 so I'm removing it from the tree to keep the cruft down. Secondly bitchx doesn't appear to work with any of our socks implentations (dante-1.1.12, and dante-1.1.13) so i've disabled that compile option untill someone upstream fixes it, or untill we get a different socks implementation that makes bitchx happy.
