[Bro] Redux - source build on OpenBSD (5.3) and BIND libs

Lou RUPPERT himself at louruppert.com
Mon Aug 26 08:14:49 PDT 2013


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On 08/26/2013 10:59 AM, Siwek, Jonathan Luke wrote:
>> I'm hung up trying to figure out where the necessary 
>> routines/libraries would be. OpenBSD ships with BIND 9 by
>> default, and has res_* functions in libc (there is no
>> libresolv.a, etc.; libresolv was removed ~2005). The previously
>> referenced thread mentions libbind package; this doesn't seem to
>> exist any more, although there is an an upstream ISC BIND 9
>> package (isc-bind 9.9.2-P2).
> 
> There's a libbind 6.0 package at [1] (third from bottom of list)
> that might have what's needed.  From what I read [2], the resolver
> library and headers it provides used to be part of BIND 8/9, but
> later removed as its own separate package.  Not sure if OpenBSD has
> it's own package corresponding to that.

5.3 doesn't. I had to grab libbind 6.0 from isc.org in order to get it
to compile. IIRC that's the only thing I had to do.


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