Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I'm working on getting edm operational on NetBSD.  I've got everything compiling correctly, however I'm having problems when I try to run the system.

 

For some reason, when I try to install libEpics.so, I get an error that it can't find object "nss_dns.so.0".  Also get the same error when I try to install libLog.so.  Without installing those two files, edm seems to run great, except, of course that parts of it won't work.

 

The errors are directly related to functions defined in the nsdispatch() OS module.  I thought it was related to the 'gethostbyname' calls used in edmMain/main.cc and lib/pvs.cc (which are the only two functions used which reference the library), however even with those commented out (just for a test), it still fails when trying to load the library.  This leads me to think that it probably is related to something in base, however everything else in base, and all the other extensions I've got built work without error, so I'm still pointed back to a problem with  the way edm links.

 

Have any wild ideas?  This is the last program I need to adapt to run on NetBSD.  I've got all of SDDS, ChannelArchiver, StripTool, alh, gateway, medm, and probe working fine. 

 

The NetBSD group tells me that the nisdispatch functions are all contained in libc, and I've written small little test programs that link and run with no problem.

 

David