BIND 8.4.6 Release won't compile

[Stefan Puiu]

I've seen this compiler error before (don't recall if in BIND 8 or 
someplace else), if you look in the clock_gettime manpage you'll see you 
need to link with librt in order to be able to use it (by adding -lrt to 
the link command). As far as I can see from the command line that 
generated the error (I still haven't donwloaded the 8.4.6 release), -lrt 
is missing from the command line; it should be added to the nslookup 
Makefile.

Anyway, do you need nslookup that bad? Changes in 8.4.6 seem to be 
related to named mostly, at least looking at the Changelog.

Dirk Janssen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've just tried to update to 8.4.6 on Solaris 8 (Sparc) but get the following error:
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>gcc -I../../port/solaris/include -I../../include
>-D_PATH_HELPFILE=\"/usr/local/lib/nslookup.help\" -g -O2  -c list.c
>gcc -I../../port/solaris/include -I../../include
>-D_PATH_HELPFILE=\"/usr/local/lib/nslookup.help\" -g -O2  -c subr.c
>gcc -I../../port/solaris/include -I../../include
>-D_PATH_HELPFILE=\"/usr/local/lib/nslookup.help\" -g -O2  -c commands.c
>gcc -g -O2   -o nslookup main.o getinfo.o debug.o send.o skip.o list.o
>subr.o commands.o \
>        ../../lib/libbind.a -ll -lnsl -lsocket
>Undefined                       first referenced
> symbol                             in file
>clock_gettime                       ../../lib/libbind.a(ev_timers.o)
>ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to nslookup
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>make[2]: *** [nslookup] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/bind-8.4.6/src/bin/nslookup'
>make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/bind-8.4.6/src/bin'
>make: *** [all] Error 1
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Dirk
>
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