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From: jesse@camelot.sgi.com (Jesse Rendleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: using gethostbyname()
Keywords: gethostbyname help
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Date: 1 Jun 90 19:59:45 GMT
References: <14410@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
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In article <14410@thorin.cs.unc.edu> taylorr@glycine.cs.unc.edu (Russell Taylor) writes:
>
>	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.
>
>	Russell Taylor

on my system, "nm /usr/lib/libbsd.a | grep gethostbyname" finds all the
entries you'd expect.

your compile line should be something like "cc prog.c -lbsd -o prog"?

do you have the development option loaded on your machine?  (check
"versions | grep dev", which should say something like...

   I dev                    5900637   Dev Sys PD 3, S5-DV01-3.2, 808-0059-006
   I dev.sw      89/09/06   5800637   Dev Sys SW 3, S5-DV01-3.2, 808-0058-006
   I dev.man     89/09/06   6000637   Dev Sys Man 3, S5-DV01-3.2, 808-0060-006

good luck,