Re: getaddrinfo() loses on RedHat 6.0

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: Ben> please investigate and see if there's an obvious solution, e.g. different Ben> params. if not, perhaps we should declare getaddrinfo[] broken on RH 6.0 Ben> [perhaps it's fixed in later versions]. the way to do this is to put something Ben> like Ben> #undef BROKEN_GETADDRINFO Ben> into config.h, and then have configure test for Red Hat 6.0 and turn the define Ben> on. [even better, you could make a proper configure test! have configure run a Ben> little program that calls getaddrinfo[], then waits 30 seconds or until it Ben> dies. if it's still around 30 seconds later, kill the program and define Ben> BROKEN_GETADDRINFO. maybe the timeout should be longer, for modem users?] Ben> martin, you're the configure expert; want to write this support? Not until we get a handle on what the problem could be. It's very hard to believe that Red Hat 6.0 is simply broken, because *I* was using it (and many other people besides). Debugging may find a problem on Alastair's system, and that could be the incentive for inadequate error checking in the XEmacs source code. The obvious thing to try is to temporarily stop using things like a local `named', and see when things start working again.

Martin