From owner-cvs-lib  Mon Aug 21 06:28:17 1995
Return-Path: cvs-lib-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA19532
          for cvs-lib-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 06:28:17 -0700
Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34])
          by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA19519
          ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 06:27:54 -0700
Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA26477; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 23:23:55 +1000
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 23:23:55 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Message-Id: <199508211323.XAA26477@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@haywire.dialix.com
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net gethostbydns.c res_debug.c res_init.c res_mkquery.c res_query.c res_send.c
Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, bde@freefall.FreeBSD.org,
        cvs-lib@freefall.FreeBSD.org, pst@freebsd.org
Sender: cvs-lib-owner@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk

>I impression that libresolv was an no-op library...  I now see the error 
>of my ways.

I used to think that too.

>Question: should libresolv become a no-op, as it currently does the same
>thing as libc/net/get* and libc/net/res*;

I'm not qualified to decide this.  I seem to remember Garrett saying that
libresolv should go away.  libresolv isn't referenced by any Makefile in
/usr/src.

>OR:
>should the libc stuff have the #define DEBUG removed so that the libc
>version does not have the debugging printf()'s that things like dig(1)
>need, while libresolv does...  (so dig links with libresolv)

>I suspect it was working the second way before, in which case I've broken 
>the distinction between the two libraries..

I think you actually broke RES_DEBUG.  Previously there was no DEBUG
flag in libc/net/*, although libresolv/Makefile defines it.  The support
for RES_DEBUG should continue to to be independent of local debugging
flags.

Bruce