-INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for ADNS
+INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for GNU ADNS
1. Read the security note below.
2. Standard GNU package build process:
- $ ./configure
+ $ ./configure [--disable-dynamic] [--prefix=... ...]
$ make
# make install
-Unfortunately, since this is a beta, there is no good documentation
-yet. For now, use the comments in the public header file adns.h.
+Unfortunately, there is no comprehensive documentation yet. For now,
+use the comments in the public header file adns.h, and for the C
+programs their usage messages. If you find this information
+ambiguous, incomplete or wrong, please report it as a bug.
-You will find that adns requires a reasonably standard and up to date
-system.
+TESTED PLATFORMS
The following platforms have been tested at at least some point and
should work - please report if they don't:
[adns] OS
- pre-1.0 Linux glibc 2.1 (actually tested on Debian 2.2).
- pre-1.0 FreeBSD 3.2
- pre-1.0 Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
- pre-1.0 HP-UX 10.20, 11.00
- pre-1.0 IRIX 6.5 *not* with GCC [1], --disable-dynamic
+ 1.0 Linux glibc 2.1 (actually tested on Debian 2.2)
+ 1.0 Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 [3]
+ 1.0 FreeBSD 3.2, 4.0 (no poll(2), so no adnsresfilter)
+The following work, but only with --disable-dynamic:
+ 1.0 IRIX 6.5 *not* with GCC [1], [2]
+ 1.0 AIX 4.1.5
+ 1.0 HP-UX 10.20, 11.00
Later versions of the same OS should work too. [adns] is the latest
version of adns that has been tested. Usually entries in this table
-mean they pass adns's own regression test, when compiled with GCC.
+mean they pass adns's own regression test, when compiled with GCC,
+and appear to install and run correctly.
+
Notes/known problems:
- [1] IRIX 6.5 inet_ntoa seems to break with GCC.
+ [1] IRIX 6.5 inet_ntoa seems to break with GCC.
+ [2] The SGI IRIX compiler produces many spurious warnings.
+ [3] Dynamically linked, needs some help to find libadns.so.0.1.
The following platforms are known to be deficient and will not work:
- Solaris 2.5 Lacks vsnprintf
+ Solaris 2.5 Lacks vsnprintf - install glibc ?
+ TruUnix64 (DEC UNIX 4.0f) Lacks vsnprintf - install glibc ?
Please don't report these problems unless you have a nice,
-straightforward solution or workaround for them.
+straightforward solution or workaround for them. (I don't consider
+including a `vsnprintf' implementation nice, so don't send me one.)
+
+
+PORTABILITY INFORMATION
+
+You will find that adns requires a reasonably standard and up to date
+system. Non-GNU, non-UNIX systems are not supported.
-In particular, the build system assumes that you have ELF shared
-libraries. If you don't then please don't send me patches to support
-your kind of shared libraries, and don't send me patches to use
-libtool. I'm not interested in supporting non-ELF shared libraries,
-and I dislike libtool. If you do not have ELF shared libraries then
-please use the --disable-shared configure option.
+The build system assumes by default that you have ELF shared
+libraries, and that the directory in which libadns.so.1 will be
+installed is on your dynamic library search path. If your system
+doesn't have ELF shared libraries then dynamic linking is not
+supported by adns. Use the --disable-shared configure option.
+Please don't send me patches to use libtool (which I dislike).
The adnsresfilter utility uses `tsearch' from the C library (a la SVID
-and X/Open). If your C library doesn't have tsearch you will find
-that configure arranges for adnsresfilter not to be built. To rectify
-this, install a C library containing tsearch, such as the GNU C
-library. It is best if tsearch uses an automatically-balancing tree
-algorithm, like the glibc version does. Simple binary trees may
-perform badly.
+and X/Open). If you don't have tsearch configure will arranges for
+adnsresfilter not to be built. To fix this, install a C library
+containing tsearch, such as the GNU C library. It is best if tsearch
+uses an automatically-balancing tree algorithm, like the glibc version
+does. Simple binary trees may perform badly.
You will probably find that GNU Make is required.
+Please do not report this as a bug; install GNU Make instead.
SECURITY AND PERFORMANCE - AN IMPORTANT NOTE
adns is
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
- Copyright (C) 1999 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> [1]
+ Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> [1]
Copyright (C) 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology [2]
adns is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
above or write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place -
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-[1] Tony Finch holds the original copyright on
- client/adnslogres.c and client/fanftest.c.
+[1] Tony Finch holds the original copyright on client/adnslogres.c and
+ client/fanftest.c, and some modifications to those files.
[2] MIT hold the original copyright on the included install-sh,
which came via GNU autoconf.
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