From 6ea4ec893472a7c441d2d6c26ff2914a51c1f978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 19:29:44 +0000
Subject: Avoid using -lresolv if possible.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=605
---
 NEWS         | 1 +
 configure.in | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6cc9e12c..b59c00f0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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"
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