In message <20180320205558.23ld7b2orcfky...@mycre.ws>, Robert Edmonds <edmo...@mycre.ws> wrote:
>Rick Dicaire wrote: >> For libbind9, https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libbind9-90 > >You would also need the ".so" symlink in order to link with -lbind9, >which is in this package: >https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libbind-dev. This package is >confusingly named, though, it should probably have been named >libbind9-dev. It's unrelated to the original "libbind" >(https://www.isc.org/downloads/libbind/). That all quite certainly *is* bloody confusing. Firstly, I wish I understood the wisdom of the Linux/Ubuntu gods, specifically when they elected to place some files that *seem* like the library I was looking for into the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu directory but then also deciding to leave out the additional(.so) symlink necessary to actually use the bloody things (and putting that instead into some optional package that needs to be installed separately). Second, I wish I undrstood your comment that the the files that appear on my Ubuntu system and whose names begin with "libbind9" are "unrelated" to the "real thing" (ISC) library of the same name. I suppose that when I grow up I will understand all these things, but right now it is all bloody preplexing. Not that any of this is in any way ISC's fault. It looks to me as if the Linux people just may have some funny ideas about how to organize things. >However, note that there's also a proposal to get rid of the public >BIND9 libraries and turn these into private APIs: > >https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/issues/88 Oh vey! So, I guess that, going forward, it will be a Good Thing if I try to make sure that my code will plug-and-play alright with the Linux libresolv, as there may be no other choice on that platform in the future... unless I really want to code up the routines I want myself from scratch. (I certainly could do that, if necessary. I'm not even using that much out of the library, as I do my own packet parsing and compression. I'd just prefer not to.) _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
