The patch fixed the problem.

Thanks

Richard

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:55:01AM -0500, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:16:24AM -0400, Richard Chen wrote:
> > Unfortunately it precisely breaks just the name resolving part on
> > my redhat linux 6.2:
> >
> > $ src/curl http://www.yahoo.com/
> > curl: (6) Couldn't resolv host 'www.yahoo.com'
> >
> > Installing 7.1.1 and earlier all worked flawlessly. I have
> > just backed out to 7.1.1 again.
>
> Try this patch. You'll need to regenerate configure.
>
> --
> albert chin (china_at_thewrittenword.com)
>
> -- snip snip
> --- configure.in.orig Wed Aug 30 10:24:07 2000
> +++ configure.in Wed Aug 30 10:24:24 2000
> @@ -240,10 +240,10 @@
> struct hostent h;
> struct hostent *hp;
> char *name = "localhost";
> -char buf[10];
> +char buf[8192];
> int rc;
> int h_errno;
> -rc = gethostbyname_r(name, &h, buf, 10, &hp, &h_errno);
> +rc = gethostbyname_r(name, &h, buf, 8192, &hp, &h_errno);
> exit (rc != 0 ? 1 : 0); }],[
> AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
> AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_6)
> @@ -298,13 +298,13 @@
> int length;
> int type;
> struct hostent h;
> -char buffer[10];
> +char buffer[8192];
> int buflen;
> int h_errnop;
> struct hostent * hp;
>
> hp = gethostbyaddr_r(address, length, type, &h,
> - buffer, buflen, &h_errnop);],[
> + buffer, 8192, &h_errnop);],[
> AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
> AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR_R_7)
> ac_cv_gethostbyaddr_args=7],[
> @@ -317,14 +317,14 @@
> int length;
> int type;
> struct hostent h;
> -char buffer[10];
> +char buffer[8192];
> int buflen;
> int h_errnop;
> struct hostent * hp;
> int rc;
>
> rc = gethostbyaddr_r(address, length, type, &h,
> - buffer, buflen, &hp, &h_errnop);],[
> + buffer, 8192, &hp, &h_errnop);],[
> AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
> AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR_R_8)
> ac_cv_gethostbyaddr_args=8],[
Received on 2000-08-30