[adding -hackers to discussion]
[getaddrinfo and friends are broken on some versions of windows]
Maggnus Hagander wrote:
That definitly means it's broken. We need the same binary to run wether
you have it or not - at least if we want it to be included in the
precompiled binaries by the installer. That means we have to load the
function with LoadLibrary / GetProcAddress, to check it at runtime.
Yuck.
Petr Jelinek wrote:
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Yep. I don't think we have much choice. The upside is that we can
let the configure test stay as is and not worry about it further.
Just put some ifdef''d code in src/port/getaddrinfo.c. Chuck McDevitt
kindly said he will try next week to produce a patch.
I am glad Chuck took it because I wouldn't be able to do it in
reasonable time due to some probles in my real life.
I am bit worried about those HAVE_IPV6 ifdefs - they will prolly have
to be modified to C code under windows
Now I consider it you might be right. Here's a list of those places:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ grep -rl HAVE_IP .
./include/pg_config.h.in
./include/libpq/ip.h
./include/pg_config.h
./bin/initdb/initdb.c
./Makefile.global.in
./backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
./backend/libpq/ip.c
./backend/libpq/hba.c
./backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
./backend/utils/adt/network.c
./Makefile.global
./interfaces/libpq/ip.c
./port/getaddrinfo.c
Can we even get this done for 8.1, or is it too late? If it's too late
we need to document heavily that we do not (fully) support IPv6 on
Windows yet.
Can someone please try running a build from CVS tip made on a modern box
(W2k3 or XP >= SP1 I believe) on a non-modern box (e.g. W2k) and see if
anything blows up? If it does then we either have to finish this work
now or revert the config file changes, I think.
cheers
andrew
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