GNU bug report logs - #7643
Build failure for SGI IRIX MIPS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: beebe <at> math.utah.edu

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:36:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 7643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Rainer Orth <ro <at> CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc: 7643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7643: Build failure for SGI IRIX MIPS
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:48:19 -0400

Rainer Orth wrote:

> I fear that's exactly the problem: IPv6 support was only added in a
> later update of IRIX 6.5 (don't recall exactly which one), so without
> knowing what Nelson is (was) running, it's hard to tell.  Maybe emacs
> assumes IPv6 support unconditionally (or the test was insufficient)?

Thanks for looking at this.

However, all the relevant places in process.c seems to be inside #ifdef
AF_INET6, where AF_INET6 is defined by the system headers, not by Emacs.
So if IPv6 support is not present these sections should never be seen.
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