Stop linking with -lnsl on Linux

Kelly O'Hair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Thu Jun 10 22:23:32 UTC 2010


Looks good to me.

-kto

On Jun 10, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:

> Hi Kelly, I'd like you to do a code review.
>
> The JDK links with libnsl on Linux, but this is an unused dependency.
>
> Here's a patch to stop linking with it - very similar to the handling
> of libsocket:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk7/libnsl
>
> I don't know whether libnsl is also unused on Solaris - I'll leave
> that up to someone else.  Solaris and Linux libnsls are very
> different.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin




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