Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > > The IPv6 patch currently checks for the function getaddrinfo() and the > > include file netinet/ip6.h. > > getaddrinfo() has nothing to do with IPv6, and netinet/ip6.h isn't > included anywhere, so why check for it? > > I believe we would need to check for a combination of > > getaddrinfo() > inet_ntop()/inet_pton() > AF_INET6 > struct sockaddr_in6 > > Then again, it might be simpler to make it a configure option > (--enable-ipv6) and just assume all those things exist. Over time the > interfaces might stabilize. > > However, even when IPv6 support is compiled in, we still need some > run-time control about whether it should get activated because the > presence of the programming interfaces doesn't tell you anything about > whether the run-time environment supports it. >
I changed the check for sockaddr_in6, rather than ip6.h. Let's see how that works. I would like to have this automatic rather than adding yet another configure flag. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
