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Re: whois package
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw at staff dot crosswalk dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:14:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: whois package
- Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH
- References: <911C684A29ACD311921800508B7293BA037D2874@cnmail>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
Hallo Mark,
2001-12-07 18:05:12, du schriebst:
> Going back to dig and host, I'm guessing that the maintainer would need to
> actually be a maintainer for the whole bind package? Am I right in assuming
> that having bind as a cygwin package would provide libresolv functionality,
> or would more be required.
No just the resolver is needed to build the tools, I can query every NS so the
named isn't required and I think my 'native' Windows DNS Server is much faster.
> BTW, I can get bind 9.2 to compile with some modification....
Great. But there are some problems here.
If bind installs in /usr there are some files which collide, netdb.h, sys/cdefs.h,
arpa/inet.h.
A possibility to resolve this would be a split into runtime and devel version,
or the headers needs to be merged which is the better choice IMO.
On the other hand, the best would be to have a libresolv included with the C lib
or resolver functions in cygwin itself so bind isn't needed.
Gerrit
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