On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > There aren't any additional header files/libraries but as I said in the
> > original message:
>
> I don't understand. The other software needs some "threadsafe resolver
> routines" but they aren't provided any library.

No they aren't provided by any _additional_ library/header than what was used 
by earlier versions of the resolver, ie libc or libresolv and resolv.h and I 
cant see any UNIX system not having those so  testing their existance seems 
pointless.

> All I am saying is that the builtin.mk should check that the library
> exists instead of assuming there is a library if just named is the
> correct version. (Because maybe a system using pkgsrc has a
> /usr/sbin/named that doesn't use that library, i.e. static, or the library
> can't be found by the pkgsrc because in some odd spot.)

I'll concede that that is a possibility (and did in the original message) but 
does it happen in reality?  It would certainly be better to do the test based 
on the contents of resolv.h but I don't know any easy way to get from that to 
a particular bind version number.

> But the recent cvs comment said "our base OS", so maybe should check for
> "NetBSD" too and then assume.

Actually it said "the base OS" to allow for other than NetBSD.

cheers
mark