[Xymon] c-ares

[Mark Felder]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013, at 13:03, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, November 1, 2013 10:35 am, Mark Felder wrote:
> > Is there any hope of getting xymon to compile against the system
> > provided c-ares, or is xymon always going to bundle it? Just seems like
> > it would be more efficient to use the system-provided c-ares if it's
> > there...
> 
> The xymon build process ends up making a library which the various
> binaries incorporate, and I don't think it's dynamic or would pull in the
> live system version in this case. I know there's a make option to do a
> dynamic lib, but IIRC it's experimental.
> 
> That being said, with a few patches for CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS, xymon compiles
> fine with the current version of c-ares... The Terabithia RPMs all use
> 1.10.0, for example.
> 

Thanks for the info. I was hoping to be able to change the build process
for FreeBSD so it can pull in c-ares from the ports tree.