Re: which RPM for this lib.

[Satish Pagare <asatsi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
    I guess u want to do socket programming ... so the libsocket
is a part of libc only so u dont need to -lsocket for a socketed
program ... but for inet functions ull hv to link nsl -lnsl ..

Satish/

>
>My rh 6.0 system doesn"t seem to have libsocket.so.
>is there a way for me to find out which rpm contains this lib ... other 
>than actaully running a rpm -qpl <package>.
>
>I tried a web search, but it says this lib is a part of the ibcs2..rpm 
>which comes with the suse distro .. ???
>
>Ealier when i had installed rh 5.2, this lib was there, and i chose nearly 
>the same stuff to install as i dd with rh 6.0 ....
>Any idea where libsocket.so could be .. ?
>
>TIA,
>
>- Rohit
>
>
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