Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Sender: trawick@rdu88-250-035.nc.rr.com
To: Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>
Cc: dev@apr.apache.org
Subject: Re: Solaris binary compatability bug
References: <20020424112223.A17394@covalent.net>
From: Jeff Trawick <trawick@attglobal.net>
Date: 24 Apr 2002 14:43:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20020424112223.A17394@covalent.net>
Message-ID: <m34ri1szso.fsf@rdu88-250-035.nc.rr.com>
Lines: 24
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net> writes:

> I'm having a small problem with binary compatability between Solaris 2.6
> and a particular Solaris 8 box that I have.  If I build a simple program
> on a 2.6 box and call:
> 
> apr_sockaddr_info_get(..., "255.255.255.255", ...) 
> 
> It works fine on the 2.6 box, but fails on the 8.x box.  There is a 
> check in the configure stage which defines GETHOSTBYNAME_HANDLES_NAS --
> this succeeds on 2.6, and fails on 8.x (obviously not binary compatable.)

FYI... works on my Solaris 8 box...

> There is a way in which we can fix this:  Why don't we _always_ run the
> segment of code in sa_common.c (~ line 420) where we do a strspn to see
> if we are dealing with dotted-quad notation?   

fair enough (+0.9)...  we can zap the configure test and always handle
that part of processing...

-- 
Jeff Trawick | trawick@attglobal.net
Born in Roswell... married an alien...