[Glibc-bsd-devel] KBSD Mini-Porting Reference + Quinn-Diff + New Packages

[Nathan Hawkins]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:29:34PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:37:25PM +0200, H?ctor Garc?a ?lvarez wrote:
> > > So nice! We're a step from having buildds :)
> > > 
> > > Btw, any success with the DNS and MTA stuff?
> > 
> > I have bind9 building allmost fine. It just need a small change.
> 
> But wasn't the problem in Glibc?

The DNS resolver in glibc is broken. Bruno Haible knew which function
was broken, but IIRC, hadn't found a fix that glibc maintainers would
accept.

> Btw, I ported bind8 a while ago if that helps (see #197412)
> 
> > The biggest problem is that libtool cannot create dinamic libraries.
> 
> Argh. Which version of libtool? The version in CVS is suposed to work fine;
> if it doesn't we have big trouble since the 1.6 release is near.

Probably the hacked up old version in the package. Some source archives
do dumb things with libtool. :(

	---Nathan