Re: inet_aton() in gnome-support?

[Gregory McLean <gregm comstar net>]

I have am checking a fix for this into gxsnmp now.

This should take care of the solaris issue (I totally brain farted on that one)
> 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
> 
> 
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Gregory McLean
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ComStar Communications Inc.