Could you please enable the "options" feature at compile time? Look at hosts_options(5) to see what I mean and for what reason... Thanx alot....
A hunk of the patch that is already applied to create the package: @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ # Uncomment the next definition to turn on the language extensions # (examples: allow, deny, banners, twist and spawn). # -#STYLE = -DPROCESS_OPTIONS # Enable language extensions. +STYLE = -DPROCESS_OPTIONS # Enable language extensions.