Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:12:05 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> To: William Gronim <william@brainlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.4, SSH port, gai_strerror() Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05.10003221701040.15862-100000@earth.wnm.net> In-Reply-To: <web-4410571@brainlink.com>
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, William Gronim wrote: > Hello. > > I recently cvsup'd my Jan 25 3.4-STABLE source to a current > 3.4-STABLE. I downloaded the latest ports.tar.gz and > attempted to rebuild the ssh (not openssh) port. However, > when the build process attempts to link the ssh binary it > fails because it can't resolve the gai_strerror() symbol, > and a variety of other hostname resolution related functions. Bind > (/usr/src/contrib/bind) compiles and installs cleanly, but a 'find / | > xargs nm > out; grep gai_strerror out' only finds gai_strerror defined > in the object files in bind's compile directory! Shouldn't the bind > hostname resolution functions be part of libc? How should I > > Please respond directly as I am not subscribed to > this list. Thank you. > I had something similar happen to me during a few buildworlds a couple of months ago. Libbind seemed to be the culprit then and I suspect it's also your problem here. I tried a few solutions and kludges, none of them worked out so I ended up wiping /usr/src and fetching the entire source tree anew. Maybe that's the simplest option. hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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