From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 15:12:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3ED437C3BC for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:12:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12638; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:12:05 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:12:05 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: William Gronim Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.4, SSH port, gai_strerror() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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