hi, On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Guy Harris wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:47:04PM -0600, alex medvedev wrote: > > for tcpdump: > > # CC=cc ./configure --disable-ipv6 <-- needed for unpatched aix 5.2, > > should not be necessary in the > > future releases as they fixed > > getaddrinfo() > > I assume that means that AIX 5.2 has a bug in "getaddrinfo()"; if so, > what's the bug, and does the test in "configure.in" check for the bug, > or is there *another* bug it needs to check for? >
i am not sure what the bug is, but configure.in checks for a "buggy getaddrinfo" and gets a failure with a meaningful error message. for now, --disable-ipv6 should be used to compile on unpatched AIX 5.2. back in july, i ripped the c code from the configure script, compiled it, and it failed on the my unpatched AIX 5.2 in getnameinfo() with a non-zero return code (8). sorry, i did not go into details, but relayed this problem to the AIX developer who maintains the getaddrinfo/getnameinfo code. the developer told me that getnameinfo was fixed. i am not sure whether it has been released as an official fix yet, but "./configure --enable-ipv6" should succeed on an AIX install with this patch. thanks, -alexm 16:13 30/11/2003 - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
