Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
I'm not sure that I believe the "getaddrinfo doesn't work" diagnosis
anyway, seeing that bear gets through "make check" okay.  Wouldn't that
fail too if there were a problem there?

Now that I look further into it, this machine was working just fine until we made a change in configure, allegedly to get things right on Tru64. The first build that went wrong was the one right after configure.in version 1.450. I see a report from Albert Chin that this patch worked, but the buildfarm member seems to provide counter-proof.

Ugh.  So probably it depends on just which version of Tru64 you're using
:-(.  Maybe earlier versions of Tru64 have a broken getaddrinfo and it's
fixed in later ones?  How would we tell the difference?

I have done some more digging on this. The buildfarm member had a couple of configuration issues which I have remedied, and which almost certainly account for the float test errors we saw. However, we still get an error when we try to start the installed s/w with the default listen_addresses:

 LOG:  could not translate host name "localhost", service "5832" to address: 
servname not supported for ai_socktype

Of course, this won't be seen with "make check", since it starts on Unix with listen_addresses='', which means we never even look for any sort of TCP addrinfo.

I found a hint on the web that we should use -D_SOCKADDR_LEN. I tried this, but got a link failure, complaining about revc and send. This man page extract explains:

 [Tru64 UNIX]   The recv() function is identical to the recvfrom() function
 with a zero-valued address_len parameter, and to the read() function if no
 flags are used.  For that reason the recv() function is disabled when
 4.4BSD behavior is enabled; that is, when the _SOCKADDR_LEN compile-time
 option is defined.

I'd like to know some settings that we can use that will get Tru64 cleanly through the buildfarm set. If noone offers any, I propose that we revert the getaddrinfo() test in configure and use our own on Tru64 until they do.

cheers

andrew






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