C-ares

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Download Source: http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/c-ares-1.7.1.tar.gz

Introduction to C-ares

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT.

Project Homepage: http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/

Differences from original ares

* IPv6 support 
* Many bug fixes 
* Extended portability (Mac OS X, RISC OS, Windows, DOS and more) 
* 64bit cleaned sources 
* New functions (ares_cancel(), ares_expand_string(), ares_version() and more)

Non-Multilib

Configure and compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package:

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Configure and compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package:

make install

N32

Configure and compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 &&
make

Install the package:

make install

64Bit

Configure and compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 &&
make

Install the package:

make install