Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:23:38 +0100 (BST)
From: Paul Sutton <paul@ukweb.com>
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Subject: Re: [STATUS] Apache 1.2.3 (Wed 13-Aug-1997 11:48 MET DST)
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> Release Status:
> 
>     o IMPORTANT:
>       Apache 1.2.2 was canceled because the pre-release tarballs were already
>       rolled with a server version named 1.2.2 instead of 1.2.2-dev and a few
>       of us (at least Marc, Ken, Ben and Lars) really want to avoid any

For the record, I'd also +1 the increase in version number. 

>       - CONFUSING: On taz (BSD/OS 2.1) it compiles only with CC=cc because the
>         gcc (found by Configure) there (=/usr/local/bin/gcc) needs an
>         additional -lbind because of inet_addr and inet_ntoa. No real problem
>         with Apache, I think, but a little one on taz itself.  [rse]
>         => We should force CC=cc under BSD/OS (see patch below)

I'd way prefer it if Configure could see if it was a broken bind and add
this itself rather than changing compilers. Don't know if that is
possible. In the meantime people should add -lbind themselves if
necessary.

//pcs