Help wanted: Linking to libbind9 on Ubuntu Linux

[Robert Edmonds]

Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <20180320193041.d2bwvgkgyvqemyff at mycre.ws>, 
> Robert Edmonds <edmonds at mycre.ws> wrote:
> 
> >For glibc versions that are less than about ten years old, these should
> >be available in libresolv, which is part of glibc.
> 
> Thanks Robert!  I added -lresolv to the link and now the link step is
> succeding.
> 
> >See the resolver(3) manpage, which is probably in the manpages-dev
> >package on Ubuntu 14.
> 
> For the record, I *did* look over that man page, and several others,
> before I posted my question.  But neither that man page nor any of the
> several others I looked at ever said a word about the necessary extra
> -l option needed in order to drag in the needed resolver routines.

Hi, Ron:

It should be in the SYNOPSIS section :-)

    http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man3/resolver.3.html

    SYNOPSIS
        #include <netinet/in.h>
        #include <arpa/nameser.h>
        #include <resolv.h>

        [...]

        Link with -lresolv.

-- 
Robert Edmonds