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>RESOLVELIB is kind of broken on SunOS 4.1 and 4.1.1.
>It seems to have a funny format which upsets dynamic loading.

Actually, it may depend on whose dynamic loading you're talking about. 
:-)

The 4.1 "libresolv.a" appears to be filled with position-independent
".o" files; while that may mean they contain relocation directives that
ATK's private dynamic linker can't cope with, it means that the dynamic
linker built into SunOS 4.x may actually like them *better*, because
they don't require relocation. 

I.e., the intent was that the "libresolv.a" stuff could be put into a
modified "libc.so.X.Y" that, instead of using NIS to look up host names,
used the resolver, so that dynamically-linked programs would magically
start using the resolver.  You *could* link with "-lresolv" - as I
assume is done, in effect, with ATK programs - but I don't think that
was the primary way Sun expected it to be used.

When patch 10 comes out, this problem may go away, as ATK's private
dynamic loader isn't used for ".do" files in patch 10 under 4.1[.x];
instead, "doload()" is built atop the routines in "-ldl" (present in
SunOS 4.1[.x], SVR4, and perhaps in 4.4BSD).