inet_aton() in gnome-support?

["Fr\id\iric Devernay" <devernay istar fr>]

Hello,

serveral applications in GNOME use inet_aton(), which is not included in
some OSs (eg Solaris up to 2.5). These are ORBit, the help browser, and
gxsnmp.

ORBit has an implementation for inet_aton(), and checks properly for its
eventual presence in libc or libresolv, but gxsnmp and the help browser
won't  compile if inet_aton is not in the system.

Could there be an implementation of inet_aton in gnome-support, together
with autoconf macros that would:
- check if inet_aton() in libc
- if not found, check for inet_aton in libresolv, if it's there, add
-lresolv to LIBS
- else, check that -lgnome-support is in LIBS in order to get the GNOME
implementation.

gnome-support could either include the glibc implementation, or the
ORBit implementation.

fdy