[distcc] Re: How to get libpopt for Solaris

[Ben Elliston]

>>>>> "Shane" == Shane McDaniel <shanem at ll.mit.edu> writes:

  Shane> Hello, I'd like to use distcc on Solaris 8 yet as was stated
  Shane> in the install files Solaris doesn't comes with libpopt.  I
  Shane> can't seem to find out where to get libpopt though.  I read
  Shane> previously in the archives that someone wrote a replacement,
  Shane> and subsiquent to that post it was mentioned that in later
  Shane> versions of distcc libpopt could be included.  That doesn't
  Shane> seem to have actually happened yet, so I'd like to just make
  Shane> libpopt myself instead of using a third parts library.

I found a copy here, at least:

  http://samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/popt/

  Shane> Oddly enough we use samba and rsync under Solaris 8 and I
  Shane> can't seem to find the libpopt library that rsync should have
  Shane> required.  rsync -v shows we are running 2.5.5 and as far as
  Shane> I can tell that version required libpopt.  Perhaps is was
  Shane> statically linked?

Yes and perhaps it was included as a subdirectory in the Samba src?

Cheers, Ben