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

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20130819110209.GA26712%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>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.

Just to break perl :-)

I just followed suit on what I did back with getservby and getprotoby...
Perl was the only thing that broke back than too; I guess I'll fix it again.

christos