Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix legacy build issues

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi Steve-
> 
> Hope your power is restored.
> 
> We discovered some problems building nfs-utils on legacy systems caused
> by recent IPv6 updates.  Here are some patches I propose to address
> those problems.
> 
> Jonathan Andrews has tested the C code introduced by "use gethostbyname(3)
> when building on old systems" on his distribution, which includes a very
> old version of glibc that doesn't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.  But I was a
> little challenged by the autoconf magic needed to pull this off.  Please
> have a close look at that to see if it really does what is needed.
> 
> ---
> 
> Chuck Lever (5):
>       configure: use "--disable-uuid" instead of "--without-uuid"
>       mount command: Random clean up
>       getport: don't use getaddrinfo(3) on old systems
>       mount command: use gethostbyname(3) when building on old systems
>       mount: revert recent fix for build problems on old systems
> 
> 
>  configure.ac          |   12 ++++++--
>  support/nfs/getport.c |   69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  utils/mount/network.c |   77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  3 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
Committed...

steved.