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From: chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BIND modifications for Ultrix 2.2?
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Date: 13 Jan 89 01:48:16 GMT
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In article <18088@adm.BRL.MIL> Harald Eikrem writes:

##  I have the BIND 4.8 sources. I want to build them on Ultrix 2.2. The
##  first attempt at compiling didn't work. The BIND source expects the
##  function inet_addr() to return an (u_long), however the function is
##  returning (struct in_addr). I will continue to work on getting it, but
##  would appreciate some pointers from someone that has done this.

>The Ultrix compiler does not accept cast from a struct into int (u_long)
>which the Berkeley compiler does.  You would have to change the declaration
>of inet_addr() to int.  That will do it.  Same goes for Sendmail.


This is not correct.  The function inet_addr() is returning an unsigned long,
but the declaration for it has it returning a struct in_addr.  Fix the
definition in /usr/include/arpa/inet.h .

This will fix the sendmail problem as well.

Chet



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