Problems Building DECT Stack

[Alexander Huemer]

Hi Samuel,

In configure.ac of libdect I see:

        # Checks for libraries.
        AC_CHECK_LIB([nl], [nl_socket_alloc], ,
                     [AC_MSG_ERROR([No suitable version of libnl found])])

The resulting conftest is:

        configure:3400: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lnl   >&5
        /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnl
        collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
        configure:3400: $? = 1
        configure: failed program was:
        | /* confdefs.h */
        | #define PACKAGE_NAME "libdect"
        | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libdect"
        | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.0.1"
        | #define PACKAGE_STRING "libdect 0.0.1"
        | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "kaber at trash.net"
        | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
        | #define RELEASE_NAME "libdect"
        | #define _GNU_SOURCE /**/
        | #define _STDC_FORMAT_MACROS /**/
        | /* end confdefs.h.  */
        | 
        | /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
        |    Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
        |    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
        | #ifdef __cplusplus
        | extern "C"
        | #endif
        | char nl_socket_alloc ();
        | int
        | main ()
        | {
        | return nl_socket_alloc ();
        |   ;
        |   return 0;
        | }
        configure:3409: result: no
        configure:3419: error: No suitable version of libnl found

* No PKG_CHECK_MODULES used
* No AC_CHECK_HEADERS used
* AC_CHECK_LIB used

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:57:56PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Configure won't be looking for the .so.  It will be looking for the
> .h file or the pkgconfig info.  You need to install the dev or devel
> package for libnl.
> 
Are you really sure that this is correct?

Kind regards,
-Alexander Huemer