Compile failure in CentOS 3.9

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:20:32 -0700 (PDT),
grpprod <grpprod at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to compile latest versions under CentOS 3.9. Never had
> compilation issues in the past. But not anymore:
> 
> > Jul 30 00:06:41 srv named[17694]: starting BIND 9.5.1b1 -c /usr/local/bind9/etc/named.conf
> > Jul 30 00:06:41 srv named[17694]: errno2result.c:111: unexpected error:
> > Jul 30 00:06:41 srv named[17694]: unable to convert errno to isc_result: 38: Function not implemented
> > Jul 30 00:06:41 srv named[17694]: main.c:504: unexpected error:
> > Jul 30 00:06:41 srv named[17694]: isc_socketmgr_create() failed: unexpected error
> > Jul 30 00:06:41 srv named[17694]: create_managers() failed: unexpected error
> > Jul 30 00:06:41 srv named[17694]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
> 
> I would appreciate some help.thanks

This is a known issue.  It's most likely because your Linux kernel is
some 2.4.x, confusing BIND9 autoconf on the availability of epoll.

The next beta will work around this.  In the mean time, if you don't
have performance problem with the more conservative P1 versions, I'd
recommend them.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
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