Solaris machines (Sunos 5.x) ---------------------------- 1. If the code can't find cdefs.h and/or bitypes.h The cdefs.h and bitypes.h and netdb.h files belong to bind which can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src 2. Compiling with the strictest warning settings will return warnings of the sort: "warning: function declaration isn't a prototype" This is due to a problem with signal() on these systems where the SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL macros contain function declarations (as part of a typecast, presumably) which are not prototypes. They can safely be ignored. I couldn't get rid of them because they deal with the system include files, not anything that we have control over.