Re: Problem on Linux 2.0.23

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:22:04 +0100

"James V. Di Toro III" <karrde@gats.hampton.va.us> said:

James> I'm having problems installing scotty/tkined on my system. It
James> compiles almost cleanly. I get the following warnings during
James> compile:

[snip]

James> From what I hear though they are normal, and everything else
James> does compile OK without any complaints.

Exactly.

James> The problem is when I go to install. I get the following
James> problem:

James> ./scotty: can't resolve symbol '__dn_skipname'

James> Where is this, I only came across one refrence to dn_skipname
James> and that was in 'tnmDns.c', but it was only a call to it. Am
James> I missing a library or something???

Lets look in unix/porting.notes:

> Some Linux systems have a non-default resolver setup in their C
> library. These systems either fail to compile the tnmDns.c module or
> they cause unresolved symbols errors when loading the Tnm
> extensions. One solution is to switch to libc 5.3.12 which is
> available from tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/GCC. Another
> solution is to install the bind 4.9.4 resolver implementation.

Thats it.
Juergen

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