[ANN] rwhoisd-1.5.9.2

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005, David Blacka wrote:
>Hello folks,
>
>After not really looking at the rwhoisd code for something like a year, 
>this is what you get: a flurry of releases.
>
>Anyway, this is just an update to the main 1.5.9 line that fixes some 
>relatively serious issues that have been lingering in the code base. 
>The main one is that CIDR addresses are once again zero-filled, which (I 
>think) solves any search issues with network searches.
>
>I also backported the build changes, and the memory leak and double 
>free()s that I fixed in 1.5.10-pre2.
>
><http://www.rwhois.net/ftp/rwhoisd-1.5.9.2.tar.gz>

I spent considerable time getting this to build under the openpkg.org
package management system this afternoon, and had two problems relating to
libwrap support.

  1.  I want to use the system installed libwrap, but the configure testing
      for the installed system failed because of two unresolved variables
      in the test code, allow_severity and deny_severity.

  2.  Even building with the included tools/tcpd_wrappers library, the
      final output generation failed on these same two undefined global
      integer variables.

For my purposes, I took a brute force approach, editing the configure file
to force it to ignore the local tcpd_wrappers by setting build_libwrap=no a
line before the test to see if it's set to "yes", and adding a couple of
lines to server/main.c immediately above the line commenting on ``local
types'':

	int allow_severity = LOG_INFO;
	int deny_severity = LOG_INFO;

A better approach would be to add similar lines to the hosts_access code in
the configure file so that it would properly test for existing libraries.

Bill
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