Bug 96010

Summary:	FaxMail is a email client for free world wide fax service but it can't be compiled on my amd64 platform
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	sfinder <danielpan>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major	CC:	vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description sfinder 2005-06-13 13:31:17 UTC

FaxMail is a email client for free world wide fax service but it can't be
compiled on my amd64 platform. you can get a copy of source from following link.
http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/FaxMail/

The error message I got as following 

hercules FaxMail-2.3 # make
compiling tryfax program...
cc  -o tryfax tryfax.c
/tmp/cchaNRg7.o(.text+0x22a): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `__res_search'
/tmp/cchaNRg7.o(.text+0x2c2): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `__dn_skipname'
/tmp/cchaNRg7.o(.text+0x343): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `__dn_expand'
/tmp/cchaNRg7.o(.text+0x425): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `__dn_expand'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [tryfax] Error 1
 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-06-13 15:05:18 UTC

faxmail isnt in portage, thus it isnt supported

talk to the upstream author to get his build system fixed