What is libnsl ?

[Rod Butcher]

Hello sluggers, I'm trying to build hal (hardware abstraction layer) for
Gnome's volume manager for 2.8. It comes with "-lnsl" not found - what
is libnsl.so if it exists, or is this a script bug ? I can't get into
the freedesktop.org site (where hal lives) because it's been hacked...
so no info.
thanks
Rod

[Darren Williams]

Hi Rod

Post by Rod Butcher
Hello sluggers, I'm trying to build hal (hardware abstraction layer) for
Gnome's volume manager for 2.8. It comes with "-lnsl" not found - what
is libnsl.so if it exists, or is this a script bug ? I can't get into
the freedesktop.org site (where hal lives) because it's been hacked...
so no info.
thanks
Rod

A quick google shows that it is part of libc and is called Name Services Layer
according to:
http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/libnsl.htm
Definition: libnsl: Name services library, a library of name service calls
(getpwnam, getservbyname, etc...) on SVR4 Unixes. GNU libc uses this for the
NIS (YP) and NIS+ functions.

Post by Rod Butcher
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On my RedHat 9 and Debian boxes it lives in /usr/lib


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