BIND-9 IDN patch Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) * What is this patch for? This patch adds internationalized domain name (IDN) support to BIND-9. You'll get internationalized version of dig/host/nslookup commands. + internationalized dig/host/nslookup dig/host/nslookup accepts non-ASCII domain names in the local codeset (such as Shift JIS, Big5 or ISO8859-1) determined by the locale information. The domain names are normalized and converted to the encoding on the DNS protocol, and sent to DNS servers. The replies are converted back to the local codeset and displayed. * Compilation & installation 0. Prerequisite You have to build and install idnkit before building this patched version of bind-9. 1. Running configure script Run `configure' in the top directory. See `README' for the configuration options. This patch adds the following 4 options to `configure'. You should at least specify `--with-idn' option to enable IDN support. --with-idn[=IDN_PREFIX] To enable IDN support, you have to specify `--with-idn' option. The argument IDN_PREFIX is the install prefix of idnkit. If IDN_PREFIX is omitted, PREFIX (derived from `--prefix=PREFIX') is assumed. --with-libiconv[=LIBICONV_PREFIX] Specify this option if idnkit you have installed links GNU libiconv. The argument LIBICONV_PREFIX is install prefix of GNU libiconv. If the argument is omitted, PREFIX (derived from `--prefix=PREFIX') is assumed. `--with-libiconv' is shorthand option for GNU libiconv. --with-libiconv=/usr/local This is equivalent to: --with-iconv='-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -liconv' `--with-libiconv' assumes that your C compiler has `-R' option, and that the option adds the specified run-time path to an exacutable binary. If `-R' option of your compiler has different meaning, or your compiler lacks the option, you should use `--with-iconv' option instead. Binary command without run-time path information might be unexecutable. In that case, you would see an error message like: error in loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file If both `--with-libiconv' and `--with-iconv' options are specified, `--with-iconv' is prior to `--with-libiconv'. --with-iconv=ICONV_LIBSPEC If your libc doens't provide iconv(), you need to specify the library containing iconv() with this option. `ICONV_LIBSPEC' is the argument(s) to `cc' or `ld' to link the library, for example, `--with-iconv="-L/usr/local/lib -liconv"'. You don't need to specify the header file directory for "iconv.h" to the compiler, as it isn't included directly by bind-9 with this patch. --with-idnlib=IDN_LIBSPEC With this option, you can explicitly specify the argument(s) to `cc' or `ld' to link the idnkit's library, `libidnkit'. If this option is not specified, `-L${PREFIX}/lib -lidnkit' is assumed, where ${PREFIX} is the installation prefix specified with `--with-idn' option above. You may need to use this option to specify extra argments, for example, `--with-idnlib="-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -lidnkit"'. Please consult `README' for other configuration options. Note that if you want to specify some extra header file directories, you should use the environment variable STD_CINCLUDES instead of CFLAGS, as described in README. 2. Compilation and installation After running "configure", just do make make install for compiling and installing. * Contact information Please see http//www.nic.ad.jp/en/idn/ for the latest news about idnkit and this patch. Bug reports and comments on this kit should be sent to mdnkit-bugs@nic.ad.jp and idn-cmt@nic.ad.jp, respectively. ; $Id: README.idnkit,v 1.2.2.2 2005/09/12 02:12:08 marka Exp $