I've got a system that I'm trying to get connected to another fidonet hub [again], but I'm having issues now that I'm having to connect to a new coordinator. Previously I was able to connect via binkd-0.9.4, but I'm having issues that I can't get resolved between several people very experienced with binkd; it appears to be an incompatibility between more recent versions and 0.9.4, not a configuration issue.
Unfortunately, when attempting to get binkd-1.1 to compile on my OpenBSD 5.3 system, there appears to be some issues either locating a library or finding the correct library to install on my system. There is a rather large lack of information for my situation available; as far as anybody experienced with fidonet or binkd (as far as I know) knows, I'm the only person that has had binkd running on OpenBSD, let alone run into these incompatibilities and tried to get binkd-1.1 to compile in this environment. Here is the problem that I've been getting, starting with the 'configure' shell script output that seems to be applicable: -=-=- checking for ns_initparse... no checking for ns_msg._msg_ptr... no checking for ns_msg._ptr... no -=-=- and then, compilation seems to go fine until I hit the last few files before final linkage; 'make' errors follow: -=-=- Compiling srv_gai.c... srv_gai.c: In function 'srv_getaddrinfo': srv_gai.c:82: error: 'ns_msg' undeclared (first use in this function) srv_gai.c:82: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once srv_gai.c:82: error: for each function it appears in.) srv_gai.c:82: error: expected ';' before 'nsb' srv_gai.c:83: error: 'ns_rr' undeclared (first use in this function) srv_gai.c:83: error: expected ';' before 'rrb' srv_gai.c:137: error: 'ns_c_in' undeclared (first use in this function) srv_gai.c:137: error: 'ns_t_srv' undeclared (first use in this function) srv_gai.c:151: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ns_initparse' srv_gai.c:151: error: 'nsb' undeclared (first use in this function) srv_gai.c:163: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ns_msg_count' srv_gai.c:163: error: 'ns_s_an' undeclared (first use in this function) srv_gai.c:164: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ns_parserr' srv_gai.c:164: error: 'rrb' undeclared (first use in this function) srv_gai.c:168: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ns_rr_class' srv_gai.c:171: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ns_rr_type' srv_gai.c:173: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ns_rr_rdlen' srv_gai.c:178: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ns_rr_rdata' srv_gai.c:178: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast *** Error 1 in /usr/src/binkd-1.1 (Makefile:76 'srv_gai.o': @gcc -c -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACK...) -=-=- Now, I will be the first one to admit that my knowledge of Makefile syntax and operations is pretty limited. I can fumble my way through general modifications, but I'm not sure I'm doing things correctly. I've gotten some difficult packages to compile that haven't wanted to on particular systems, but I find these solutions pretty much by educated guess. I know C/C++, but I can't say that I've ever coded anything more than a few hundred (<600) lines long in that language. So as far as porting to a new operating system, taking into account SYSV/BSD differences and anything else, I'm pretty lost. My web searching for the ns_msg and associated functions seemed to indicate that this is a part of libspf2, which I then installed via pkg_add to my system. Right off the bat I attempted a freshly started 'configure' and 'make'. The configuration still indicated success, but with the same 'not found' messages that I indicated in my first cut 'n paste in this message. I then made several modifications to the Makefile and even attempted manual compilation of srv_gai.c with different command lines, trying to manually specify -lspf2. No luck. I even tried switching the order of the compilation in order to compile unix/ns_parse.c prior to srv_gai.c, thinking (strictly due to the superficial resemblance of the name of this file and hints that I saw in the source code) that perhaps an ns_msg may reside in there. Yeah, it was desperation time by this point. No go. At this point I'm totally out of ideas. I'd be grateful for anything that anybody might be able to suggest. Well, with possible exception of switching operating systems. My machine that has ports forwarded to it from the internet will always be OpenBSD due to my affinity for privacy and system integrity. Am I trying to add the wrong library? Is there any other place I could somehow insert this ns_msg and other associated code? Many thanks in advance for anything you can offer. I really need to get this system working as a binkd server and client asap. Also, if anybody is interested in the BBS scene, I'd be happy to drop the address for my system just as soon as I've got the ports forwarded at my new location again. ;) -Damon Getsman
