On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Alexander Lazic wrote:

(for curl-library readers: cc'ed to the c-ares list since this is actually
  about the configure script in c-ares.

  for c-ares readers: the mail I reply to can be read here:
  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2006-01/0025.html)

> - AC_TRY_COMPILE(
> + AC_TRY_LINK(

...

> due the fact that the compiling is ok but the linking failed.

Now this puzzles me.

How come it can compile fine if it doesn't even have the function? To me, it
sounds like the function is present in the header files but perhaps requires a
lib or something that we don't detect/use proberly

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