Re: pkg/37117: x11/libXfont compiles with ipv6 despite -inet6 option

[Yakovetsky Vladimir <yx%x.ua@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/37117; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yakovetsky Vladimir <yx%x.ua@localhost>
To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkg-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/37117: x11/libXfont compiles with ipv6 despite -inet6 option
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:41:04 +0300

 On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:45:02PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Yakovetsky Vladimir wrote:
 >> % cd /usr/pkgsrc/x11/libXfont && make
 >> ...
 >> checking if IPv6 support should be built... yes
 >> ...
 >  
 > I think that is just in the default configure for these modular Xorg 
 > packages pulling in the xtrans autoconf macro.
 >  
 > I didn't test, but did this make any difference to the build?
 >  
   yes.
 
 > The libXfont doesn't know IPv6 itself.
 >  
   How much I understand it:  the fstrans - part of libXfont,
   whereas Xtransport (and libXfont/fstrans too) know IPv6.
 
   for example
   % nm /usr/pkg/lib/libXfont.so.1.4.1 | grep INET6
   0005ea20 D _FontTransSocketINET6Funcs
 
 
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 Yakovetsky Vladimir