Re: Mac OS X compilation

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 07/04/11 14:31, Jideel wrote:
> Just to say that i tried to compile spiped on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
> (10.6.7) and the following error occured : "ld: library not found for
> -lrt". As it seems Mac OS X doesn't use this library, i removed the
> linker directive "-lrt" from the Makefile and, well, it compiled
> successfully.

That's a bug in OS X.  Yes, removing -lrt is the right workaround -- on
OS X the relevant functions are in libc.

> Also, i successfully established a tunnel between Mac OS X SL and a
> fit-pc first generation running Gentoo (2.6.36-gentoo-r8).
> One more question, even if i can almost gess the answer ("well, no."),
> could spiped be used to secure classic FTP ?

You can run anything you like over spiped... as long as it runs over spiped.
Since FTP uses multiple connections that's rather hard.

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Colin Percival
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