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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: New kdelibs/kdecore/ksock stuff limits KDE to newer OS versions ...
From:       Rob Napier <rnapier () employees ! org>
Date:       2001-03-05 20:01:28
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:56:46PM +0000, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2001 13:08, Thomas Leitner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Today I tried to compile the KDE CVS head branch under Tru64 4.0 again and
> > stubled across severe problems with kdelibs/kdecore,
> > kdelibs/kdecore/ksockaddr and klibs/kdecore/kextsock.
> > 
> > The problem is that these routines need stuff which is not available on
> > my OS version (4.0x) like the following routines:
> > 
> > inet_ntop, inet_pton and getaddrinfo
> > 
> > These system calls seem to be available only on very new operating system
> > revisions. In my particular case, they are available under Tru64 5.x but
> > not on 4.x. Needless to say that I do not want to drop support for Tru64
> > 4.0x because it is still rather widely used.
> > 
> > The same is possibly true for Solaris. I didn't find these routines
> > on Solaris 7 which is still quite new.

FYI, this stuff does fail on at least Solaris 2.6 as well.

Rob
 
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