In article <[email protected]>, Brian Buhrow <[email protected]> wrote: > hello. I'm trying to get sendmail-8.15.1 to build and operate from >pkgsrc under NetBSD-5. It builds, but links against libresolv, which isn't >thread safe. Sendmail-8.14, which I'm currently running doesn't use >threading so this isn't a problem. It seems I have two options here to fix >the trouble: 1. Stop linking against the thread library. 2. Link >against a thread safe version of the libresolv library. Option 1 seems >less than optimal since the point of this exercise is to get sendmail >running with a modern version of openssl. Option 2 brings up several >questions: > >1. Where is the insertion of the -lresolv command line option controlled >in the build process? I don't see it in the pkgsrc/mail/sendmail/Makefile >or the pkgsrc/mail/sendmail/Makefile.common file. Nor do I see it in the >field of mk files in the pkgsrc/mk/*.mk tree, though I must just be missing >it. > >2. It looks like the thread safe replacement of -lresolv is -llwres. Does >anyone know if this library is a linkable drop in replacement for -lresolv? >
Resolv is thread safe but you need to use the "n" functions, like res_ninit, res_nsend etc. sendmail should know how to find them... christos
