Unable to build openconnect-3.16 in Solaris 10 (x86)

[chua wei yang]

Hi Paul,

> You can check as follows:
>
> # /usr/ccs/bin/nm /usr/lib/libc.so.1 |grep asprintf
>
> If the symbol is there it will show up in the output.  Otherwise you are
> downrev on patches.
bash-3.00# /usr/ccs/bin/nm /usr/lib/libc.so.1 |grep asprintf
bash-3.00#

After execution, there's no output.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Paul Wernau <paul.wernau at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 04/18/12 10:35 PM, chua wei yang wrote:
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Sorry for the late response, I just reached my office, and I really
>> appreciate your swift assistance.
>>
>>>> If you run 'man asprintf' on Solaris 10, what happens?
>>
>> man asprintf
>> No manual entry for asprintf.
>>
>>>> Perhaps it was added in an update, and your system is out of date?
>>
>> Possible, never heard/know of any update done on this machine; it was
>> setup/maintained by another guy and he's left.
>>
>
> It wasn't added until Solaris 10 update 10 (or the equivalent kernel jumbo
> patch, which would also update libc), so you would really need to upgrade or
> install the latest Solaris 10 recommended patch cluster to get this
> functionality.  It is fairly recent, from 2011.
>
> You can check as follows:
>
> # /usr/ccs/bin/nm /usr/lib/libc.so.1 |grep asprintf
>
> If the symbol is there it will show up in the output.  Otherwise you are
> downrev on patches.
>
> Thanks,
> -Paul