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Eric Germann ekgermann at semperen.com
Tue Jul 6 16:30:12 UTC 2021


Or “make dig”

> On Jul 6, 2021, at 11:47, Paul Kosinski via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 12:44:15 +0000
> "MURTARI, JOHN" <jm5903 at att.com> wrote:
> 
>> Folks, let me add my desire for a quick download dig supporting DoH.  It could really help with some testing, some ready stuff for Ubuntu 18/20,  Redhat/CentOS, could make a lot of people happy.   Maybe the libs included and we set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or a 'static' link?
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>> It only takes a 'few minutes' more -- once you spend a few hours getting the whole environment setup.....  some don't build it all the time.
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>> I'll give ISC Five Stars on Google! 😃
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>>>> On 6 Jul 2021, at 05:56, Eric Germann via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Has ISC given any thought to releasing dig as a separate source package?
>>> 
>>> It?s good for testing DoH, but you need to build the entire bind package to get it.  It would be useful for support analysts without the overhead of compiling all of bind to get it  
>> 
>> Really, it a couple of extra megabytes of disk space and a couple of extra minutes of compile
>> time.  Dig is not a stand alone component.  It depends on libisc, libdns, libisccfg, libirs, and
>> libbind9.  Thats most of the libraries we build.  It makes no sense to have a seperate source
>> package for dig.
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> 
> It isn't mainly the disk space and extra build time, it's the complexity. Somebody who only wants 'dig' would have to figure out how to isolate it from the result of the build. This would be especially troublesome after doing a "make install" (which I suspect is necessary to get the 'dig' executable properly set up) as there would be a whole lot of undesired stuff installed. Perhaps adding a "install-dig-only" option to the make file would be possible and not a lot of work?
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