Re: Build Result: rblcheck on development

[Oliver Falk <oliver linux-kernel at>]

Hi Paul!

On 07/01/2005 12:05 PM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Oliver Falk wrote:
>
> > On 06/30/2005 10:29 PM, buildsys fedoraproject org wrote:
> >
> > > Build of rblcheck on development failed to complete on one or more 
> > > archs.
> >
> >
> >  > Please see logs at:
> >
> > > http://extras64.linux.duke.edu/failed/development/rblcheck
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm a bit confused because of this. rblcheck uses libresolv, which is 
> > part of glibc, so it should be installed on extras64, shouldn't it? :-/
> >
> > The error is here:
> > [ ... ]
> > checking for res_query... no
> > checking for res_query in -lresolv... no
> > checking for res_query in -lbind... no
> > configure: error: cannot locate res_query function
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88683 (%build)
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > I have no non-i386 machine (except alphas) available to test this 
> > package, so might someone have a look at this please...
>
>
> This is a common problem for packages that use res_query in libresolv. 
> On x64_64 and possibly other architectures, res_query is defined as a 
> macro in <resolv.h>, and unless you include that header file in 
> configure test for res_query, the macro won't get picked up, the actual 
> name of the function won't be used and hence the test will fail at link 
> time.
>
> Attached patch should fix it.

Thanks, I included it for release 10. Will commit it soon and request 
build again.

Best,
 Oliver