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Re: Removal of net/bind9/builtin.mk



On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:00:02PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:21:23PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > I'm not objecting to a better solution. But just removing it will
> > > result in e.g. "milter-greylist" to build the "bind9" package
> > > for no good reason. And that's hardly an improvment from the
> > > users point of view.
> > 
> > Attached is a first stab at a more generic solution. The operating
> > systems with a thread-safe resolver needs to be added, I don't think we
> > can detect that automatically.
> 
> "milter-greylist" checks for res_ninit().
> 
> > For now, DragonFly and FreeBSD are supported, rest goes to net/bind9.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> Please add NetBSD >=3.0, SunOS >=5.9(*) and Darwin >= 8.0 to the whitelist?
> I've checked those platforms and they all use BIND 9 based resolve code or
> something similar.
> 
>       Kind regards
> 
> (*) Can somebody please check whether Solaris <=5.8 has res_ninit() ?

In case it's still needed: 5.8 has:

ignatios@cello 91 % /usr/ccs/bin/nm /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 | grep res_ninit
[1522]  |    168500|      16|FUNC |GLOB |0    |9      |res_ninit

        -is
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