Subject: Re: pkg/37117: x11/libXfont compiles with ipv6 despite -inet6 option
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Yakovetsky Vladimir <yx@x.ua>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 10/14/2007 20:41:04
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:45:02PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Yakovetsky Vladimir wrote:
>> % cd /usr/pkgsrc/x11/libXfont && make
>> ...
>> checking if IPv6 support should be built... yes
>> ...
>  
> I think that is just in the default configure for these modular Xorg 
> packages pulling in the xtrans autoconf macro.
>  
> I didn't test, but did this make any difference to the build?
>  
  yes.

> The libXfont doesn't know IPv6 itself.
>  
  How much I understand it:  the fstrans - part of libXfont,
  whereas Xtransport (and libXfont/fstrans too) know IPv6.

  for example
  % nm /usr/pkg/lib/libXfont.so.1.4.1 | grep INET6
  0005ea20 D _FontTransSocketINET6Funcs


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Yakovetsky Vladimir