On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > One of the design goals of Autoconf was to avoid the fallacy of older > > tools that had complex product databases that had to be maintained by > > hand. Instead, most Autoconf tests try to check for features. The > > exception are cases when such checks are not possible or feasible. > > This might or might not be the case here. So if it really takes too > > long or it's just too hard to write a check, then we'll use a version > > of IN6_GUESS_STACK. > > well, i like your "simply find libinet6 and check if its getaddrinfo is > better" approach. i'll try to implement it.
Please keep cross-compilations in mind. The simplest approach that works is to use a cache variable (wget_cv_<name>) for every result of AC_RUN_IFELSE or a whole test containig these calls -- it can then be overriden upon running the configure script based on a user's experience with a specific host. I can do appropriate tests when you have a patch ready. I suppose glibc 2.3.x should have getaddrinfo() fixed. There used to be a lot of inconsistency in IPv6: based on collected experience common practices disagreed with written standards. Once these issues are resolved, glibc will follow; I hope this already happened. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key available +
