Must I recompile sendmail?

[Kevin Darcy]

Last I looked (8.9.0), sendmail only linked with -lresolv. I haven't had
any problems using the OS-provided resolver library on Solaris 2.5.1 and
Solaris 7, but if yours is truly ancient, you may want to recompile/relink
with the BIND-provided one.


- Kevin

Kazik Kazimierczak wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm going to install bind 8.2.2 p5. Now, I have bind 4.9.7 and sendmail
> 8.9.3  - both installed on the same server. Bind works as primaery
> server of my
> domain and as a secondary of few other.  The INSTALL file from bind
> 8.2.2
> "says":
>
> "Until a method to update the system's libraries is available,
> applications wishing to use BIND 8 library routines must include
> BIND 8 .h files, and must link with libbind.a. "
>
> My question is:  Must I  recompile my sendmail with new libraries from
> bind 8.2.2 ?
>
> Thanks for help.
> Kazik Kazimierczak
> e--mail: kzkz at poczta.onet.pl