finding library routines

[John Wendel]

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a program that calls MD5Init().  The command
> "man 3 md5" shows the usage for MD5Init(), but doesn't indicate which
> library to link with to get the function.  Running "nm" on the likely
> candidates (like /lib64/libssl.so gives me.
> 
>            $ nm -Agp /usr/lib64/libssl.so
>            nm: /usr/lib64/libssl.so: no symbols
> 
> A stripped library???  How does that work?  How is one supposed to
> link against it or even find out what is in it?
> 
> If the man page doesnt' mention the library name containing a
> function, how is one supposed to find it?
> 
> -wolfgang


The .a libraries aren't stripped, at least on my box. Ran nm on 
libgnutls-openssl.a, found it. This is an FC3 box.

As for the bad man page, bugzilla is recommended.

Regards,

John