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From: stevea@laiter.i88.isc.com (Steve Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl 3.0 Beta, gethostent() and the DNS; also, make x2p
Message-ID: <1989Sep12.132133.10226@i88.isc.com>
Date: 12 Sep 89 13:21:33 GMT
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In article <7199@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu writes:
>Perl wouldn't compile on our SunOS 4.0.3 Sun3 systems because we're
>using the resolver routines from UUNET.  gethostent() isn't provided
>so the loader bombed with undefined symbol _gethostent.

You ought to be able to use _gethtent instead of gethostent.  At least
this is true for 4.3BSD versions of the resolver.  _gethtent is what
the gethostby* routines use to look up hosts if the nameserver isn't up.

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Steve Alexander, Software Technologies Group    | stevea@i88.isc.com
Interactive Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL | ...!{sun,ico}!laidbak!stevea