In muc.lists.netbsd.tech.pkg Georg Schwarz wrote:

>devel/distcc uses

>CONFIGURE_ARGS=                --enable-rfc2553

>Does this make sense on non-IPv6 systems?

Yes.  The old API (gethostbyname() and friends) should just not be used
anymore.

Using getaddrinfo() on IPv4-only legacy systems will not do harm - it will
do exactly the same as gethostbyname() (namely, return all available IPv4
addresses for the target system), but will not put you into the IPv4-only
corner forever.

Imagine your system having IPv6 one day - do you want to recompile all
installed software to be able to use it?

gert
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