Re: getaddrinfo broken on AIX

MS> This patch: MS> 2000-01-27 URA Hiroshi <ura(a)hiru.aoba.yokohama.jp&gt; MS> * config.h.in: added HAVE_GETADDRINFO and HAVE_GETNAMEINFO MS> * sysdep.c: In init_system_name(), add code to use getaddrinfo() MS> instead of gethostbyname() MS> * process-unix.c: In unix_canonicalize_host_name() and MS> unix_open_network_stream(), add code to use getaddrinfo() MS> instead of gethostbyname(). MS> breaks networking on AIX 4.3. This shows up in the IBM APARs as MS> IY04165, but there's not PTF for the problem (yet?) which makes MS> patching the OS a lengthy and impractical operation. MS> What's the PC way to tell XEmacs getaddrinfo is broken on a specific MS> platform? There's no real approved way currently, but you can always configure; remove #define HAVE_GETADDRINFO 1 from the generated config.h and make The s&m way to do it is to put #undef HAVE_GETADDRINFO into s/aix4.h The configure way is to do something like case "$opsys" in aix*) : ;; *) AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getaddrinfo) ;; esac Martin