[PATCH] combine libbb/xgethostbyname*.c source files into one

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Jason Schoon wrote:

> On 3/27/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> >   (analogous to combining the create_icmp*_socket.c source files,
> > there seems to be little reason to have two separate source files for
> > these two functions.  i'm still not sure what variation of "diff" to
> > run to reflect deleted files -- is this the correct diff output?)
> >
> The reason for having 2 different files is so if you are only using
> one of the two functions based on your configuration, the linker
> will not need to include the other object at all.  In this case, not
> including IPV6 allows the xgethostbyname2 object to not be linked.
> Libbb seems extremely segmented and far too many files to me, but I
> believe this is the reason it was created in that fashion.

yes, i realized that after i give it a few seconds thought.  in any
event, the contents of libbb are still somewhat inconsistent since a
number of the files do have multiple object file production
capability, while others seem to be obvious candidates for exactly the
same thing.  just making the observation.

rday