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From: mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: C Compiler BUG (really why no libresolv.a)
Summary: Resolver routines are in libc.a already
Keywords: BUG
Message-ID: <15246@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 04:02:35 GMT
References: <1989Jul12.193615.27988@csusac.uucp>
Reply-To: mic@emx.utexas.edu (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, User Services Unix Support Group
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In article <1989Jul12.193615.27988@csusac.uucp> hoodr@csusac.uucp (Robert Hood) writes:
>	One more thing:  Why isn't there a "/usr/etc/libresolv.a".  The
>NeXT supports networking and nameserving very well, but I would like to 
>compile other networking/nameserver programs too.

	You get the resolver versions of routines (gethostbyname(), etc.) for
	free in the shared C library, so there's no need for a separate
	resolver library.  Just remove the reference to -lresolv and the
	programs should link and run fine.

Mic Kaczmarczik
UT Austin Computation Center

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