[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> > I have finally been able to make a running Recursor 4.0.1. I started
> > with a newly installed FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE, Boost 1.55.0 and no other
> > packages installed. I was able to get the Recursor 4.0.1 to compile
> > and link with the following patch to Makefile.am (or a corresponding
> > patch to Makefile.in):
> >
> > --- Makefile.am.orig	2016-07-29 16:35:46.000000000 +0200
> > +++ Makefile.am	2016-08-06 22:06:37.565123000 +0200
> > @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
> >  	$(RT_LIBS)
> >
> >  pdns_recursor_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) \
> > -	$(LIBCRYPTO_LDFLAGS)
> > +	$(LIBCRYPTO_LDFLAGS) $(BOOST_CONTEXT_LDFLAGS)
> >
> >  if BOTAN110
> >  pdns_recursor_SOURCES += \
> >
> > the reason being that the Boost 1.55.0 libraries are installed under
> > /usr/local/lib *and* this is picked up by configure *but* is not
> > used to update the final link command line.
> 
> Thank you for your research. I have not tried reproducing it (I do 
> recall being able to build pdns 4 on freebsd 10 a few weeks ago without 
> this patch though), but I notice that 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211147 somehow manages 
> without. Do you have any idea why? I'm happy to upstream your patch, 
> of course (note that filing a Pull Request on github is the best way for 
> this) but I'd like to understand why we see this difference between 
> different people building it.

If you look at the buildlog link from the bugs.freebsd.org web page
above,

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=172562

you'll see (under --MAKE_ENV--) that it runs configure with a fairly
long list of options, among others

LDFLAGS=" -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib
-fstack-protector"

and this makes all the difference. If I run make either with my patch
above, or with the LDFLAGS line above, I'm able to generate a working
pdns_recursor executable. The difference is, of course, that we get
the reference to /usr/local/lib where the Boost libraries are located.

If configure without arguments is supposed to create a Makefile which
in its turn will create a working pdns_recursor, my patch above is
needed (for FreeBSD), as far as I can see.

Steinar Haug, AS2116