#1 Running on Solaris 8, FreeBSD 4.7 and a

[koen vl]

Hi,

now I even found out how to submit files/patches ;)

As said before I am not a C guru, I do know how to get
around in a few other languages .. So I'm still having
problems with pointers and stuff, sure you can do
better, care to explain ? For details, see output from
my make in make.out.

I made 2 changes, added a few libs to LDFLAGS in
Makefile, this is one you encounter a lot in Makefiles,
works only for Solaris (<quote>uncomment these for
Solaris</quote> .. ) See Makefile.diff.

Second is gethostbyname2() in ipv6_net.c, not supported
for Solaris 8, getaddrinfo() is supported, and it also
works on Linux and FreeBSD, have to pass the
portnumber/servicename though, as a pointer .. that's
where my problems come in .. they're only warnings, but
things would be a lot nicer without them .. For more
information, see 'man getaddrinfo' and/or
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-1017/6jab5di3g?a=view
getaddrinfo() might be a nice way make v4/v6 code more
uniform ?

Important disclaimer: I have not yet tested the code
with IPv6, but it compiles and works with version 4,
which is what I needed ..

Have to get my SGI O2 up and running to test on IRIX,
if you like I am willing to test later versions on
Solaris/IRIX/FreeBSD.

[koen vl]

make output + patches

[Mike Bernico]

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Thanks for the help. I'm working on rolling your changes
into the next version. Sorry it took me so long to get to
this. Would you be intrested in being involved with the
development of mint? Most of the project developers have
moved on to other projects. I could use the help.
Especially with porting to other systems.

[koen vl]

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Hi,
meanwhile I discovered that my 'solution' will probably only
be ok @ compile time, it probably won't run when using IPv6,
but I haven't had an IPv6 network at hand to test it .., and
it worked for me with IPv4 ..
My little multicast project is over now, so my multicast
interests have lowered a bit too. But, I am still interested
in the porting kind of stuff and in network programming. I
also gained some more experience in C programming over the
last few months .. So, yes, I am interested to get involved
in the project.

koen