[Slackbuilds-users] synergy-1.7.3 Slackbuild fails with dns_sd.h not found error

[Christoph Willing]

On 10/06/15 06:45, Richards, Don wrote:
> Oh oh,
> Spoke a little too soon.
> Synergy seems to be working so far but I missed this error when it starts:
>
> root at clerndcs04-2015:~/Downloads/synergy/synergy# synergy &
> [3] 24385
> root at clerndcs04-2015:~/Downloads/synergy/synergy# *** WARNING *** The program 'synergy' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
> *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
> *** WARNING *** For more information see *** <http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=synergy>
> *** WARNING *** The program 'synergy' called 'DNSServiceRegister()' which is
> *** not supported (or only supported partially) in the Apple Bonjour
> *** compatibility layer of Avahi.
> *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
> *** WARNING *** For more information see
> *** <http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=synergy&f=DNSServiceRegister>
> ("-f", "--no-tray", "--debug", "INFO", "--name", "clerndcs04-2015", "-c",
>

That looks like a problem with synergy itself - see:
     https://github.com/synergy/synergy/issues/4764

Also interesting is:
     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=862068
from which you could try running it with:
     export AVAHI_COMPAT_NOWARN=1 synergy &
or just ignore it.


chris