Ticket History #962: BSD/OS fails to build: fails to find res_search

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From: Chris Ross <cross@distal.com>
To: krb5-bugs@mit.edu
Subject: BSD/OS fails to build: fails to find res_search

Hi. I'm trying to build krb5 1.2.3 on a BSD/OS 4.2 system.
I see that you list BSD/OS 4.x build problems as a known
issue, but I wanted to check with you before working on
solving this problem. The problem I'm having is with it
trying to find res_search in libc. Presuming you're already
aware of the problem, I wanted to find out if you had a
feeling of the best way to work around the problem. If
you have any ideas of how to work around it, or better
yet some experimental patches, I would be happy to do
that. Otherwise, I might fix it in a way that works for
me but isn't generally acceptable for you guys.

Let me know if you have any thoughts. Elsewise I'll just
move forward in a way that works for me...

Thanks.

- Chris

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refiled; tweak synopsis


From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
To: cross@distal.com
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: krb5-build/962: Krb5 1.2.3 on BSD/OS 4.2
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:07:31 -0400 (EDT)



I believe you mean krb5-1.2.2; the 1.2.3 release hasn't happened yet.
As a workaround, you may want to try configuring using the
--disable-dns flag to ./configure. It's not optimal, as it will
prevent you from using DNS SRV record for doing configuration of
realm information, but it will let you build the software.

Can you please elaborate on the ways in which res_search is failing to
be found?

---Tom

From: Chris Ross <cross@distal.com>
To: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: krb5-build/962: Krb5 1.2.3 on BSD/OS 4.2
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:11:17 -0400

Tom Yu wrote:


Quite right...


Yes, but I didn't want to do that. I want to be able to use SRV records.

I just worked around it in the compilation.


Sure. The problem is that BSD/OS 4.2 (and 4.3, and maybe even 4.1.
4.0.1 doesn't have
this problem) has _res_search() in libc, and if you include resolv.h, it
will #def that to
res_search(). But, since autoconf tries to call res_search(), without
ever including resolv.h,
it fails to link.

I'm not sure what the way around this is. I was unable to find a good
way around it
in autoconf...

- Chris