Re: 2.1.19 compile fails on Solaris 2.7

[Mark Burgess]

Please pick up 2.1.19p1

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 07:59 -0500, Jamie McKnight wrote:
>   I want to start off by saying thanks to everyone who makes cfengine
> possible (especially Mark B.).
> 
>   When compiling cfengine 2.1.19 on Solaris 7, the following errors occur
> related to Solaris 7 not supporting ipv6 (truncated output, can provide
> more if needed):
> 
> "proto.c", line 123: left operand of "." must be struct/union object
> "proto.c", line 123: unacceptable operand for unary &
> "proto.c", line 125: left operand of "." must be struct/union object
> 
> Line 123 is:
> 
> iaddr = &(myaddr.sin_addr);
> 
> Line 125 is:
> 
> hp = gethostbyaddr((void *)iaddr,sizeof(myaddr.sin_addr),family);
> 
>   So it would appear that Solaris 7 is still broken due to not being ipv6
> aware.
> 
>   Under cfengine 2.1.18, we were able to work around this in our Solaris 7
> builds by putting an ifdef around line 66 of proto.c which was this:
> 
> struct sockaddr_in6 myaddr;
> 
> and make it look like this:
> 
> #ifdef SOL27
>   struct sockaddr_in myaddr;
> #else
>   struct sockaddr_in6 myaddr;
> #endif
> 
> Then we just needed to add the -DSOL27 to the compile flags.
> 
> While that work around did the trick for 2.1.18, I know a proper fix will
> need some more thought.  Any suggestions on a fix for this?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.  Please let me know if more info is
> needed.
> 
> Jamie
> 
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