Re: [xml] libxml2 on AIX 5.3, ss_family vs. __ss_family

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 05:15:07PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> When trying to build libxml2 2.6.26 on AIX 5.3, I get the following
> error:
>
> nanoftp.c: In function `xmlNanoFTPGetConnection':
> nanoftp.c:1382: error: structure has no member named `__ss_family'
> nanoftp.c:1401: error: structure has no member named `__ss_family'
> nanoftp.c:1432: error: structure has no member named `__ss_family'
> nanoftp.c:1469: error: structure has no member named `__ss_family'
> nanoftp.c:1488: error: structure has no member named `__ss_family'
>
> Note that this is the exact opposite to
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150836

  Right, this thing has been annoying us like forever. I dunno why,
probably different compilers, different options on AIX behaving differently,
probably AIX trying to emulate way too many Unices variants,

> I think I have seen some changes to configure.in to check this, so the
> #ifdef _AIX stuff in nanoftp.c may be unnecessary (and, in this case,
> wrong).

  And if we change it, how can we garantee it won't fail again for the
next user on AIX ??? Someone from IBM should jump in and look at the issue
once and for all, there is no way we can continue the flip-flop'ing
of the way this data structure is named. They must know how to make
it portable, if IBM is willing to certify a patch at this point I will
take it, but if it's yet another iteration which will fail for the next
user, I'm not thrilled to try to 'fix' it.
  Unless someone have a battery of different AIXes version and willing to
test with at least gcc and xlc I'm not sure we should try to patch it again,
but of course users may disagree, and I would apply a patch if I get minimal
feedback :-)

Daniel

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