Re: linc 0.1.20 fails to build on irix 6.5 (sgi platform)

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Rubin,

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Rubin wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> I'm working on a new distribution of IRIX called GNU/IRIX which
> essentially is a very minimal irix (only kernel, basic unix cmds, cc, X)
> with a GNU layer around it to provide most of the modern functionality
> like gettext, ssh, gcc (3.0.4), openjade 1.3.1, python 2.2, perl 5.6.
>
> I'm using gcc 3.0.4 to build gnome 2 and I've already successfully built
> glib, pango and pkg-config. I finally arrived at linc 0.1.20 and it
> failed on linc-protocols.c as follows:
>
>
> iris# gcc <gcc options> -c linc-protocols.c -o linc-protocols.o
>
> linc-protocols.c: In function `linc_protocol_get_sockaddr_ipv6':
> linc-protocols.c:350: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:352: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:356: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:357: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:370: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:370: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
>
> linc-protocols.c: In function `linc_protocol_get_sockinfo_ipv6':
> linc-protocols.c:621: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:621: `in6addr_any' undeclared (first use in this function)
> linc-protocols.c:621: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> linc-protocols.c:621: for each function it appears in.)
> linc-protocols.c:621: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:623: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:624: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
> linc-protocols.c:629: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>
> linc-protocols.c: At top level:
> linc-protocols.c:827: sizeof applied to an incomplete type

	Yuck :/

> The undeclared identifier is pretty obvious to me (afaik) I don't have
> any ipv6 support and certainly no headers/libs for it. All errors seem
> to be ipv6 related. Is there maybe a way to disable it nicely? If I know
> what to disable or change maybe I can make a ./configure option for it.

	If you put an '#undef AF_INET6' at the start of
linc-protocols.c after the headers then the ipv6 stuff shouldn't
build.

	If you could figure why AF_INET6 is defined even though you
don't have ipv6 support, that would be great.

Cheers,
Mark.