current-users: Re: Why does libresolv include gethnamaddr.c?

Subject: Re: Why does libresolv include gethnamaddr.c?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 07/17/2002 11:05:19

>I see that basesrc/lib/libresolv/Makefile has:
> SRCS=gethnamaddr.c ...
>Why does libresolv need to build with gethnamaddr?
>I removed that and removed the objects, etc, and rebuilt and installed
>and as far as I can tell libresolv works fine -- at least with the Apache
>binaries (like "ab")[1] that I tried that are linked to it.

	libresolv itself is just for debugging (-DDEBUG).
	it is not really needed for general use, if i understand correctly.

itojun