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

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:09:00PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Ouch, that's good news! I'm CCing him.

Bruno: Do you have any helpful information regarding the DNS resolver bug
in Glibc (for kernel of FreeBSD, that is)?

> > 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. :(

Ok then. Things will get easier when 1.6 is released.

-- 
Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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