[ratelimits] rpz add_nm Warnings

Justin T Pryzby justinp at norchemlab.com
Tue Aug 27 20:36:26 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:22:19PM +0000, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> > BIND 9.9.3-rpz2+rl.13214.22-P2 (Extended Support Version) <id:d8a6fe8b> built with '--prefix=/usr' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc/bind' '--localstatedir=/var' '--enable-threads' '--enable-largefile' '--with-libtool' '--enable-shared' '--enable-static' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-gssapi=/usr' '--with-gnu-ld' '--with-geoip=/usr' '--with-atf=no' '--enable-ipv6' 'CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing -DDIG_SIGCHASE -O2'
> > using OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
> > using libxml2 version: 2.8.0
> >
> I think that is an awful lot of fancy and strange ./configure settings,
> but then I use only this (on FreeBSD 9):
> 
>   BIND 9.9.3-rpz2+rl.13214.22-P2 (Extended Support Version) <id:d8a6fe8b> built with '--sysconfdir=/etc/namedb' '--prefix=/usr' 'CFLAGS=-g'
> 
> I think some of your ./configure settings (many of which I suppose
> come from Debian) look like defaults or unnecessary at this late date,
> such as --enable-ipv6.

I believe Debian considers it a best practice to specify --enable-*
configure options, even in the default case.  That causes a graceful
failure in the case the build environment changes somehow, rather than
creating packages with features enabled non-deterministically.

Justin


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