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Date:	Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:00:16 -0400
From:	John Peacock <jpeacock AT rowman DOT com>
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To:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
CC:	andrew kitchen <andrew AT transmission DOT to>
Subject:	Re: building qmail in cygwin - missing resolv.h
References:	<20011021151730 DOT A322 AT transmission DOT to> <127132370138 DOT 20011022024915 AT familiehaase DOT de>

"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> Guten Tag Andrew,
> 
> Am 2001-10-22 um 00:17 schriebst du:
> 
> > I am attempting to compile qmail cygwin.  I followed what generic pre-compile
> > info I could find included with the source, and am halted by the following:
> 
> > Administrator AT BUYERBEWARE ~/util/qmail/workdirs/qmail-1.03
> > $ make setup
> > ./compile dns.c
> > dns.c:5: arpa/nameser.h: No such file or directory
> > dns.c:6: resolv.h: No such file or directory
> > make: *** [dns.o] Error 1
> 
> resolv et al. are part of bind, there is a bind port of Biggs hosted
> at sourceforge.

Actually I think that qmail will compile out of the box with djbdns 
(which is Dan Bernstein's replacement for BIND).

> 
> > any suggestions as to what I should use as a resolv.h and nameser.h file?
> > Has anyone successfully built and installed qmail in cygwin?
> 
> No, qmail depends on mkfifo(), which isn't implemented in cygwin yet.

That is probably the least of it.  I doubt qmail (and most of DJB's 
software) will ever work with CygWin due to its fanatic devotion to 
*nix features.

John

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