Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/net

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 06:49:29AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Aug 19,  8:21am, martin%netbsd.org@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/net
> 
> | Can we please revert this?
> | 
> | It provides no benefit over the previous situation, as we do not "advertize"
> | this stuff, but it already breaks pkgsrc builds (e.g. perl's configure finds
> | the symbols but can't make use of them).
> | 
> | Or go forward and fix it for real (either libc or perl).
> 
> Perl has no business using symbols that are not defined in headers.
> In particular these kinds of symbols that have no defined API by any
> spec and have been declared obsolete/unsupported.

Sure, but is there any reason for exposing them publically at all?
_gethostbyaddr_r marked hidden should be good enough for our purpose.

Joerg