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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.in | 7 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ bugs -- * Fixed a startup-time core dump introduced by 2.1's aka-list feature * Fixed a bug in non-implicit (poll specified host) mode also due to aka. * Various minor portability fixes for Suns. +* Avoid using -lresolv when possible, some Linux versions are badly broken. fetchmail-2.1 (Thu Nov 28 11:07:48 EST 1996): diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index 9e40d26c..49dc4ce4 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -33,7 +33,12 @@ AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) AC_CHECK_LIB(socket,socket) AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,inet_addr) -AC_CHECK_LIB(resolv,res_search) + + +# Under Red Hat 4.0 (and many other Linuxes) -lresolv is seriously flaky +# and breaks gethostbyname(2). It's better to use the bind stuff in the C +# library. So don't add -lresolv to the link list unless it's necessary +AC_CHECK_FUNC(res_search,, AC_CHECK_LIB(resolv,res_search)) AC_CHECK_FUNC(strcasecmp, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_STRCASECMP), [EXTRASRC="$EXTRASRC \$(srcdir)/strcasecmp.c" |