[sldev] [VWR] ares and standalone builds

[Robin Cornelius]

On 10/23/07, Jacek Antonelli <jacek.antonelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Might save someone some time wasting, as it took me a while to find out
> > where i should be getting this from as i was just searching for ares and
> > I have missed any announcements/documentation that says anything about it.
> >
> > Robin
>
> I just ran into this issue as well. Thanks much for the pointer, it
> saved me from some frustration. :)
>
> Here's what I did:
> 1. Gentoo has "net-dns/c-ares" in Portage, so I installed that: #
> emerge net-dns/c-ares
> 2. $ mkdir linden/libraries/include/ares/
> 3. $ cp /usr/include/ares*.h linden/libraries/include/ares.

Debian doesn't appear to have c-ares in its package only ares. Reading
the info c-ares is a fork of ares from version 1.1.1 that then adds
more features and functionality. So its another package needed to get
into Debian now if we want to ever get the viewer included and it
conflicts with an existing library (both generate /usr/include/ares.h)

>
> That helped it compile llares.cpp. I suspect I might also have to do
> some creative symlinking to get the library to link in, when it gets
> that far.

No problems here it just found it all ok once correct package was installed.

>
> I'm guessing LL forgot to put the ares stuff in the libs tarball.
> Luckily the work-around isn't too nasty.

I don't use the libs tarball so i don't know but yes i believe it
should have been included and if it is indeed missing perhapses you
should file a JIRA?

Robin