Re: test-getaddrinfo fails if net is down

[Jim Meyering]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> this might sound like a no brainer, but `make check` will fail if attempted to
> run offline because of the test-getaddrinfo test.  perhaps it should attempt a
> simple "is the network alive" and SKIP if it isnt ?

Thanks for the report.
Can you reproduce this with the latest snapshot?
I thought this was fixed in gnulib over a month ago:

commit 283dd26efdfbeeff672cbcb0e6811f54e032364f
Author: Mark McLoughlin <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Jan 27 19:06:31 2009 +0100

    test-getaddrinfo: skip (don't fail) this test when there's no network

    * tests/test-getaddrinfo.c: Skip test upon failure with EAI_AGAIN,
    on the presumption that it means you lack network access.