Thank you for the information! I did use C not C++ one time, but then did 
"make clean; make CC=g++". I will try to un-tar again and use only C++.

sincerely,
-Jon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yutaka Sato" <pficabdyi-mykgh46yg4tw.ml@delegate.org>
To: <pficabdyi-mykgh46yg4tw.ml@delegate.org>
Cc: <p3egabdyi-mykgh46yg4tw.ml@delegate.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [DeleGate-En] linux (CentOS/RHEL) socket problem


> Hi,
>
> In message <_A3293@delegate-en.ML_> on 
> 06/09/06(03:42:34)
> you "Jon Slenk" <p3egabdyi-mykgh46yg4tw.ml@delegate.org> wrote:
> |I am trying to build DeleGate on Centos 4.3 x86. During the configuration 
> it
> |tries to link and cannot find "socket()". I get the error output below.
> |However, there is no /usr/lib/libsocket.so (there *is* 
> /usr/lib/libnsl.so)
> |and I think modern Linux distributions don't support -lsocket. But I 
> don't
> |know enough about what to do. Perhaps I am missing a version of the 
> standard
> |C/++ library that contains socket support?
>
> The checking is for non-C++ compilers on ancient Unixes.  It is in
> "./maker/mkmake.c" which is wrapped with
>
>  #ifndef __cplusplus
>  ...
>  #endif
>
> so I'm not sure why it is activated.
> It can happen if you once compiled it as C, while you are compiling it
> as C++ now.  For example, it can reproduced as this:
>
> % make                ## possibly with CC=gcc or CC=cc
> % rm lib/libsubst.a
> % make CC=g++
>
> DeleGate creates and use "mkmake.exe" from "./make/mkmake.c" as a
> wrappper of make to cope with multiple platforms.  It is not removed
> with "make clean" so it must be removed explicitly when you switch
> CC from C to C++.
>
> % rm mkmake.exe
>
> Cheers,
> Yutaka
> --
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>
>
> |##ERROR## ***
> |##ERROR## g++ -c -o _.o  _.c
> |##ERROR## _.c: In function `int main()':
> |##ERROR## _.c:1: error: `socket' was not declared in this scope
> |##ERROR##
> |##ERROR## ***
> |##ERROR## g++ _.o -L../lib ../lib/libresolvy.a  ../lib/libteleport.a
> |../lib/libmd5.a .\
> |./lib/libcfi.a ../lib/library.a ../lib/libmimekit.a
> |../lib/libfsx.a -lnsl -ldl -lutil \
> |-lstdc++ ../lib/library.a -lc
> |##ERROR## _.c: In function `int main()':
> |##ERROR## _.c:1: error: `socket' was not declared in this scope
> |##ERROR## g++: _.o: No such file or directory
> |##ERROR##
> |FATAL!!!!: Socket library should be given.
> |FATAL!!!!: You may have to specify
> |FATAL!!!!:     LIBS=-lnsl -lsocket
> |FATAL!!!!:     LIBS=WSOCK32.LIB
> |FATAL!!!!:     ...
>