Package: tsocks
Version: 1.8beta5-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Since upstream is pretty much dead, I was wondering if you could
include this patch so it at least doesn't get lost. It's to include
-lresolv on systems that need it for inet_aton() (eg, SunOS).
This is in turn needed because inet_addr returns -1 for addresses (or
netmasks) of 255.255.255.255, which is interpreted as an error, since
*mutter* *mutter* inet_addr() is such a poor interface that chose to
return status results that are within the legal result space. It's
best to use inet_aton instead of the deprecated inet_addr where
possible, and although lacking in documentation, that often resides in
libresolv, not libnsl or the libraries included by default when
compiling under linux.
####
--- /scuzzie/root/apt-source/tsocks-1.8beta5.defaultfallthrough/configure.in
Tue Jul 16 08:51:03 2002
+++ /home/tconnors/install/tsocks-1.8beta5.defaultfallthrough/configure.in
Mon Feb 19 19:31:39 2007
@@ -103,10 +103,12 @@
dnl Check for a function to convert an ascii ip address
dnl to a sin_addr.
AC_CHECK_FUNC(inet_aton, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INET_ATON), [
- AC_CHECK_FUNC(inet_addr, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INET_ADDR), [
- AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, inet_addr, [ AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INET_ADDR)
+ AC_CHECK_LIB(resolv, inet_aton, [ AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INET_ATON)
+ LIBS="${LIBS} -lresolv -lnsl" ], [
+ AC_CHECK_FUNC(inet_addr, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INET_ADDR), [
+ AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, inet_addr, [ AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INET_ADDR)
LIBS="${LIBS} -lnsl" ], [
- AC_MSG_ERROR("Neither inet_aton or inet_addr present")])])])
+ AC_MSG_ERROR("Neither inet_aton or inet_addr present")])])])])
dnl Look for gethostbyname (needed by tsocks and inspectsocks)
AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostbyname, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME), [
####
If libresolv is required, I'm pretty sure libnsl is also required, so
I've included them both in $LIBS -- not including libnsl bails at link
stage with:
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
gethostbyname common.o (symbol belongs to implicit
dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
inet_addr common.o (symbol belongs to implicit
dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
inet_ntoa common.o (symbol belongs to implicit
dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
I can't work out the magic autoconf foo required in order to include
them both only when necessary -- it ought to first check for the
requirement of libresolv for inet_aton(), define HAVE_INET_ATON if
found it or if there anyway. Then search for requirement of libnsl
for inet_addr (which is still needed by common.o despite now being
ifdeffed out in parser.c), but don't set HAVE_INET_ADDR in this case
(or fix the logic in the code to use INET_ATON in preference to
INET_ADDR -- probably worthwhile doing anyway). Some careful thinking
would have to be done in order to get this correct -- and careful
thinking ain't for me tonight.
Ta.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Versions of packages tsocks depends on:
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