Re: gdm & nis

[Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe orcus priv at>]

Hi,

>>>>> On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 16:56:36 +0100
>>>>> Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> said:

 Mauro> Hi, here I have a debian-slink with nis enabled. GDM refuses
 Mauro> to compile because of a missing function.

What's the exact error?

 Mauro> I found out that adding "-lnss_nis" to LIBS (i did that
 Mauro> directly in the Makefile) solves the problem.

As far as I understand glibc, no normal program is required to link
directly with any libnss_*. You just link with libc and use the normal 
functions, which dynamically load and use the appropriate backend(s).

There is something amiss.

	Robbe

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