[rbldnsd] v0.996 installation and other errors

[Michael Tokarev]

Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> My first post to this list.. i have been using rbldnsd for a few years
> for dsbl, surbl blah blah.. A recent announcement from Jeff (SURBL)
> prompted me to try an upgrade to 0.996. However am facing a couple of
> issues.
> 
> a. ./configure problem on 'SunOS rbl 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc
> SUNW,Ultra-80' (Solaris 10 on a 420R)
> 
> bash-3.00# ./configure
> ../configure: syntax error at line 223: `;' unexpected

That's a "portability bug" slipped into the configure script - I was too
used to several "bashisms"..  Try running configure with bash (which you
already have), like this:

 bash ./configure

instead of what you're doing now:

> bash-3.00# sh -x configure

I will upload new version in a few days, which will correct those
issues (already fixed in CVS, quite some time ago).

Also, configure script in 0.996 will not detect any compiler but
GCC.  So if you don't have GCC installed, it will complain that
your compiler does not work at all.  This, too, is fixed in CVS.

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> b. A trivial (maybe) 404 error for rbldnsd_0.996.tar.gz.sig

Um.  Again, next version will be properly signed with my new
pgp key.  I tried hard to recover my previous key which I lost
(it really was a sort of (gpg) testing, and I had no backups).

> Any pointers on how do i take it forward?

"Fixing" point "a." (with bash and gcc) will allow you to take
it forward for now.  And as you can see in many places, 0.996
really works (see http://dsbl.org/nsstatus for example).

/mjt