Re: LYNX-DEV compilation err: 2-7-1,fotemods,BSD/OS 2.1,bind 8.1

[Foteos Macrides]

Mike Brown <address@hidden> wrote:
>Hi. Absolutely flawless compilation of 2-7-1 with the 06-Jun-97 
>fotemods, almost right up to the end...
>
>Linking and creating Lynx executable
>gcc -O -DNO_CUSERID -DUNIX -DNCURSES  -DFANCY_CURSES -DBSDI -DSVR4 [...]
>HTTCP.o: Undefined symbol ___inet_addr referenced from text segment
                           ^^^
>
>This is on BSD/OS 2.1, with a recent installation of bind (8.1-T3B),
>which I think has something to do with it.  Part of this installation
>was the directory /usr/local/include/arpa, which contains 3 files:
>inet.h, nameser.h, and nameser_compat.h.  In inet.h are these two
>lines, among others:
>
>#define inet_addr               __inet_addr
                                 ^^
>unsigned long    inet_addr __P((const char *));

        This must be the extra underscores bug in the inet.h header
for your bind library, to which TD referred.  Presumeably the bind
list to which Henry referered has a post of fixes for the system
headers.

                                Fote

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