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From: moss@BRL.MIL ("Gary S. Moss", VLD/VMB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  using gethostbyname()
Message-ID: <9006010850.aa16641@VMB.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Jun 90 12:50:49 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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<         I am trying to use the 'gethostbyname()' system call in a program.
< The manual entry mentions that I must link with 'libbsd.a' in order to use
< this function.  However, the function is not defined in that library (or
< any other library that I can find) and the loader complains about it being
< undefined.

What OS/hardware combination are you running?  I am running 4D/IRIX 3.2.2
and have gethostbyname in *my* /usr/lib/libbsd.a.  (I'm pretty sure it's
been there in previous releases of IRIX).

Try the following:

$ nm -Bo /usr/lib/libbsd.a | grep gethostbyname
...
/usr/lib/libbsd.a:gethostwrap.o:        10000000 T gethostbyname
...