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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Named v4.9.3-REL? In-Reply-To: Stephen Fisher's message of Fri, 5 Apr 1996 23:42:55 -0700 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcdu3yxyy66.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Lines: 25 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960405233806.7354A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:01:21 GMT Our friend, Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>, wrote: > I've been trying to get bind 4.9.3-REL to compile on freebsd to no > avail. I went into the BSD/ directory which explained what to do on BSD > based systems [NetBSD, FreeBSD and so on]. No. They are to the net2 distribution which is not what freebsd has. > out :( I haven't beat it to death yet because I would rather see if > anyone has already done this and gotten it to work with FreeBSD :) I started recently and it looks like most of it is pretty easy. The big problem is that freebsd has a lot of nis code that would need to be either moved out or integrated. I do not really have the time to make sense of the nis code and see what should be doing what. What is the -current library based on? > Do I need to install a FreeBSD specific patch for it? I would hope not.. > it's sorta awkard having to apply patches to a BSD system when the > program already supports BSD. Well, named and friends work fine. the sole problem is the libraries. Soren