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{{Package-Introduction|c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT.|http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/}}

'''Differences from original ares'''

 * IPv6 support 
 * Many bug fixes 
 * Extended portability (Mac OS X, RISC OS, Windows, DOS and more) 
 * 64bit cleaned sources 
 * New functions (ares_cancel(), ares_expand_string(), ares_version() and more)

== Non-Multilib ==

Configure and compile the package:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
 make

Install the package:

 make install

== Multilib ==

=== 32Bit ===

Configure and compile the package:

 CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
 make

Install the package:

 make install &&
 mv -v /usr/include/ares_build{,-32}.h

=== N32 ===

Configure and compile the package:

 CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 &&
 make

Install the package:

 make install &&
 mv -v /usr/include/ares_build{,-n32}.h

=== 64Bit ===

Configure and compile the package:

 CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 &&
 make

Install the package:

 make install &&
 mv -v /usr/include/ares_build{,-64}.h

{{Stub-Header|ares_build|/usr/include}}

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