On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:51:46AM -0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: > > > >>libresolv is a standalone library on many unixes, for example BIND > >>installs this lib. I see no reason to include the library into newlib, > >>let's keep it standalone. > > > > > > newlib has standalone libraries now. Putting it in newlib gets it into > > the cygwin distribution automatically. You don't have to know that it > > has to be selected. > > Yes, especially since the great EL/IX III import :-D > > > Alternately, we could also make the resolver package part of the base > > distribution and/or have the cygwin package depend on it. > > We should make it easier on the developer, packaging it with the rest of > the newlib/cygwin package just makes sense. Not to dispute this with > anyone, but again, this is something that is core functionality in this > day and age. Although tenuous, I might point to Debian or RedHat or > even MacOS X and ask: is libresolve distributed separate from the > package the libc/libm dll is in? I think putting it into a separate > import/dll library makes sense and is consistent with how linux/bsd/sun > do it.
On Red Hat (GNU/)Linux ;-) libresolv is part of glibc (the package) and is built as a seperate lib. There's two approaches that's been mentioned: 1) Have minires as a stand-alone package or a package that cygwin depends on or 2) Move minires into winsup/resolv Not to dismiss Jari's efforts, but I think it would be better to go with the winsup approach. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator ABCtales.com / Ubertales.co.uk
