On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Giolla Decair wrote:
> Just playing with getting an IPV6 capable version of Exim running on
> IRIX /* 6.5.19m */ and ran across a little snag,
> I've specified: HAVE_IPV6
> in the local makefile, and that gets picked up on ok, however what
> doesn't seem to get picked up is that IRIX uses:
> getipnodebyname
> rather than:
> gethostbyname2
>
> If I edit the source code so that using getipnodebyname is the only
> option it compiles and works without a problem, with IPV6 goodness.
>
> Specifying:
> HAVE_GETIPNODEBYNAME
> in the makefile to try to force the issue doesn't seem to work.
It should work. All the calls to gethostbyname2 are inside conditional
sections based on HAVE_GETIPNODEBYNAME. (I'm looking at the 4.30 code.)
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