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From: gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: can't use private libresolv.a
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.181603.9641@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 18:16:03 GMT
References: <1990Oct29.052543.9284@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo Disinformation Technology Research Centre
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In article <1990Oct29.052543.9284@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
> What's happening?  ld should not care what is in libc, if it already has what
> it wants in libresolv.

I found the problem: nslookup uses getservbyname(), which is in
gethostnamadr.o in libc, but not in libresolv.

If library routines called themselves by secret internal names, this kind of
thing would not happen.