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authorJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1993-10-07 11:28:51 +0000
committerJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1993-10-07 11:28:51 +0000
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* config/sparc/sun4os4.mh: Add comment saying why we don't use
-lresolv.
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diff --git a/gdb/config/sparc/sun4os4.mh b/gdb/config/sparc/sun4os4.mh
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+++ b/gdb/config/sparc/sun4os4.mh
@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ NAT_FILE= nm-sun4os4.h
NATDEPFILES= fork-child.o infptrace.o inftarg.o corelow.o sparc-nat.o
HOST_IPC=-DBSD_IPC
GDBSERVER_DEPFILES= low-sparc.o
+# Setting XM_CLIBS=-lresolv would let us use the DNS, but that would screw
+# anyone who wants to use NIS, which includes at least one Cygnus customer
+# (PR 3593). So leave it this way until/unless we find a resolver which can
+# get names from either DNS or NIS from the same GDB binary.