On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Tor Arntsen wrote:

> when the problem started, and what changes were done between those two days
> -- unless someone comes up with some insight or idea.

I'm pretty sure the problem started the very same moment I libtoolified c-ares
(and thus enabled building it shared). Before that day, c-ares was always
built and linked statically.

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