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Re: minires-0.95 - a new package ready for review



Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:18:04AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:43:45PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > > Review? Vote?
> >
> > Review: The only problem I found was the naming of the source package.
> > It's missing the -1 and the source directory within is missing the -1,
> > too.
> >
> > Vote: +3 from me.
>
> Oh, btw., why does minires export the symbols with leading underscores?
> This results in a problem with configure, e. g.:
>
>   AC_CHECK_FUNC(res_query,
>           [], [ AC_CHECK_LIB(resolv, res_query, LIBS="$LIBS -lresolv") ]
>   )
>
> won't work.

Because minires is using include files from bind, and bind does it for
reasons I don't
know (older binds don't do it). There is no switch in the .h file to avoid
that. The
issue has already been pointed out to me and I did some research. It has
come
up elsewhere too, e.g.
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/199907/msg00021.html
Given that bind does it, I am surprised that modern configures still choke,
but it's
an area I know little about. Advice welcome.

I will fix the -1 in the source package. Also should the package be renamed
libminires?

Pierre



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