Re: [leafnode-list] new leafnode 2 snapshot avaiable

[Leopold Toetsch <lt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Matthias
Looks like GLIBC 2.0.7 had enough IPv6 to let autoconf think your
computer supports IPv6, but not enough to provide gai_strerror.


getaddrinfo is there (and seems to be working, I did #define a dummy 
gai_strerror) no problems till now.


The next version will just try to link a program that uses gai_strerror,
if that fails, IPv6 support will be disabled.


ipv6 get's disabled:

main ()
{
struct sockaddr_in6 *a;
   int b = AF_INET6;
   void *c = &(a->sin6_addr);
   return 0;
  ;
  return 0;
}
configure:7504: result: no
configure:7518: ------------------------------------------------------
configure:7520: Disabling IPv6, sticking with IPv4.
but:

#define HAVE_GETADDRINFO 1


Beware though, SuSE have discontinued support for their 6.0 through 6.4
distributions. (They support their products for two years.) So you may
have unfixed security issues.


I should have written, a system, which in earlier days was SuSE 6.0 ;-)


This is the relevant patch, 


[ SNIP ]

The problem is not, that IPV6 get's enabled, it is disabled, but, 
HAVE_GETADDRINFO doesn't imply a gai_strerror().

Thanks,
leo
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