Well with a couple of changes I got it to work correctly on Solaris 8 x86. I ran configure a bunch of times with various corrections to configure.in because I originally got the HAVE_RES_INIT problem like the others did. Then of course the link problem with -lresolv came up during the compile. But I used the patch that Andrey sent for acconfig.h then I added a line to configure.in and voila! it worked perfectly for me "out of the box" so to speak.
*** configure.in.orig Tue Oct 29 20:00:52 2002 --- configure.in Tue Oct 29 20:20:34 2002 *************** *** 151,156 **** --- 151,157 ----
if test "x$blb_cv_c_res_init" = "xyes"; then AC_DEFINE(HAVE_RES_INIT) + LIBS="$LIBS -lresolv" fi
dnl Checks for library functions.
This patch is obviously wrong. You cannot assume that libresolv exists just because res_init is found in some header. What is the right thing to do is to search for library that contains res_init. -andrey