libmath is needed for from float functions found in a few places.
libnsl was used in older versions of Nagios that used named pipes for
IPC. Sockets will likely appear in Nagios 3.0, so I'll just comment
them out of the configure script for the moment and not completely
remove them.
On 22 May 2005 at 20:25, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> What's the reason for linking in libmath and libnsl?
>
> Insofar as I know no functions in either nagios or any of the cgi's
> use any advanced math and should work well without it.
>
> libnsl is another library out of place. Perhaps it's needed by Sun and
> friends. On Linux (Fedora 3, Openwall current, Debian sarge) Nagios
> builds nicely without them, although I know Sun (and some others) have
> huge problems understanding any C-code at all without it. Perhaps
> -lnsl should be linked explicitly on those and dropped for other
> platforms?
>
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