[rdesktop-users] Solaris compile fun: INADDR_NONE

[Christina P. <ch...@ma...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to rdesktop and this list.  I struggled a bit with compiling
version 1.2.0 on Solaris 8 (sparc) and thought I would post my problem and
solution out in case others encountered it.

When I ran "make", I got the following:

% make
gcc -DKEYMAP_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/rdesktop/keymaps/\" -Wall -O2
-I/usr/openwin/include -DWITH_OPENSSL -o tcp.o -c tcp.c
tcp.c: In function `tcp_connect':
tcp.c:117: `INADDR_NONE' undeclared (first use in this function)
tcp.c:117: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
tcp.c:117: for each function it appears in.)
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `tcp.o'


Apparently, INADDR_NONE is supposed to be defined somewhere, presumably,
netinet/in.h.  I searched around and found some other people who had this
problem when compiling other packages (not rdesktop).  To fix, I added the
following to rdesktop.h:

#ifndef INADDR_NONE
#define INADDR_NONE     ((unsigned long) -1)
#endif

And, voila!  It compiled and seems to be working like a charm.  

Anyone else seen this error on Solaris?  I couldn't find any references in
the list archives.

  -- Christina


Christina Plummer
ITS UNIX System Administrator
University of Rochester