[kaffe] libraries/clib/net/InetAddressImpl.c cannot be compiled on old Linux
Timothy Stack
stack at cs.utah.edu
Fri May 30 23:20:02 PDT 2003
On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 08:08 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>
>> 2. Patch replace/getifaddrs.c
>>
>> Old Linux does not have linux/netlink.h and linux/rtnetlink.h.
>> So I do not expect kaffe to use replace/getifaddrs.c.
>
> I'll happily let Tim deal with the ipv6 stuff ;)
Just some configure magic i think.
>> 3. Install getaddrinfo.
>>
>> Get getaddrinfo-1.5.1.tar.gz from
>> http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/getaddrinfo/
>> and compile getaddrinfo.c. This program provides
>> getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo().
>
> License is modified BSD without advertising clause, which is GPL
> compatible, so
> it can be merged in. It's up to Tim to decide if and how it should go
> in, as he
> wrote the IPv6 support.
The existing code already falls back to the old style gethostbyname,
its just that I didn't bother to check for both getaddrinfo/getnameinfo
since it seemed like they would always come in pairs. Simple enough to
just add a check for getnameinfo too...
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
tim
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