Re: [Chicken-users] gethostbyname() is deprecated in favour of getaddrinfo()

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Moritz,

On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:21:40 +0200 Moritz Wilhelmy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear Chickeneers,
>
> While building the OpenSuSE package for Chicken, I discovered the following:
>
> [  473s] RPMLINT report:
> [  473s] ===============
> [  482s] chicken-runtime.i586: I: binary-or-shlib-calls-gethostbyname 
> /usr/lib/libchicken.so.7
> [  482s] The binary calls gethostbyname(). Please port the code to use 
> getaddrinfo().
> [  482s] 
> [  482s] 5 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.
> [  482s] 
>
> (Full build log here: 
> http://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:mwilhelmy:chicken/chicken/openSUSE_12.3/i586
>  )
>
> Do you think it would be a good idea to port chicken to use getaddrinfo()
> instead, not that it's top priority or anything? getaddrinfo is part of
> POSIX.1-2001 so it should be present on most systems, while POSIX.1-2008
> removes gethostbyname() from the specification altogether.

Thanks for bringing our attention to that.  I've filed
http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1162 , so we won't lose track of your
report.

Best wishes.
Mario
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