Or “make dig”

> On Jul 6, 2021, at 11:47, Paul Kosinski via bind-users 
> <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 12:44:15 +0000
> "MURTARI, JOHN" <jm5...@att.com> wrote:
> 
>> Folks, let me add my desire for a quick download dig supporting DoH.  It 
>> could really help with some testing, some ready stuff for Ubuntu 18/20,  
>> Redhat/CentOS, could make a lot of people happy.   Maybe the libs included 
>> and we set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or a 'static' link?
>> 
>> 
>> It only takes a 'few minutes' more -- once you spend a few hours getting the 
>> whole environment setup.....  some don't build it all the time.
>> 
>> 
>> I'll give ISC Five Stars on Google! 😃
>> 
>> 
>>>> On 6 Jul 2021, at 05:56, Eric Germann via bind-users 
>>>> <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Has ISC given any thought to releasing dig as a separate source package?
>>> 
>>> It?s good for testing DoH, but you need to build the entire bind package to 
>>> get it.  It would be useful for support analysts without the overhead of 
>>> compiling all of bind to get it  
>> 
>> Really, it a couple of extra megabytes of disk space and a couple of extra 
>> minutes of compile
>> time.  Dig is not a stand alone component.  It depends on libisc, libdns, 
>> libisccfg, libirs, and
>> libbind9.  Thats most of the libraries we build.  It makes no sense to have 
>> a seperate source
>> package for dig.
> 
> 
> It isn't mainly the disk space and extra build time, it's the complexity. 
> Somebody who only wants 'dig' would have to figure out how to isolate it from 
> the result of the build. This would be especially troublesome after doing a 
> "make install" (which I suspect is necessary to get the 'dig' executable 
> properly set up) as there would be a whole lot of undesired stuff installed. 
> Perhaps adding a "install-dig-only" option to the make file would be possible 
> and not a lot of work?
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