Re: Still require --enable-wide-getaddrinfo for ruby?

[Stephan Tesch <s.tesch%science-computing.de@localhost>]

Am 04.06.2011 14:50, schrieb OBATA Akio:

Hi,

> On Linux and Solaris, both ruby18-base and ruby19-base,
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=    --enable-wide-getaddrinfo
>
> At least with my SSD/Linux 0.4, it result in linkage error because
> source codes enabled with the option are using deprecated functions.
>
> I believe that default configure options are preferred in these days
> (also on Solaris?),  so it should be gone away.
> Does anyone still require it? (old Solaris, or Linux with old glibc?)

At least on my installation (Solaris 10/x86), this switch seriously 
impacted name resolution and I had to disable it anyway. One of the 
updates to a recent ruby brought this up. Unfortunately, I can't 
remember which one it exactly was.

Best regards,
Stephan

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