Re: 2.1.19 compile fails on Solaris 2.7

[Jamie McKnight]

I can confirm that 2.1.19p1 fixed the build issue on Solaris 7.  Thanks!


Jamie


> Please pick up 2.1.19p1
>
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 07:59 -0500, Jamie McKnight wrote:
>>   I want to start off by saying thanks to everyone who makes cfengine
>> possible (especially Mark B.).
>>
>>   When compiling cfengine 2.1.19 on Solaris 7, the following errors
>> occur
>> related to Solaris 7 not supporting ipv6 (truncated output, can provide
>> more if needed):
>>
>> "proto.c", line 123: left operand of "." must be struct/union object
>> "proto.c", line 123: unacceptable operand for unary &
>> "proto.c", line 125: left operand of "." must be struct/union object
>>
>> Line 123 is:
>>
>> iaddr = &(myaddr.sin_addr);
>>
>> Line 125 is:
>>
>> hp = gethostbyaddr((void *)iaddr,sizeof(myaddr.sin_addr),family);
>>
>>   So it would appear that Solaris 7 is still broken due to not being
>> ipv6
>> aware.
>>
>>   Under cfengine 2.1.18, we were able to work around this in our Solaris
>> 7
>> builds by putting an ifdef around line 66 of proto.c which was this:
>>
>> struct sockaddr_in6 myaddr;
>>
>> and make it look like this:
>>
>> #ifdef SOL27
>>   struct sockaddr_in myaddr;
>> #else
>>   struct sockaddr_in6 myaddr;
>> #endif
>>
>> Then we just needed to add the -DSOL27 to the compile flags.
>>
>> While that work around did the trick for 2.1.18, I know a proper fix
>> will
>> need some more thought.  Any suggestions on a fix for this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any feedback.  Please let me know if more info is
>> needed.
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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