Re: [bug-inetutils] Tracking of build failures.

[Mats Erik Andersson]

söndag den  7 november 2010 klockan 17:01 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
>       Should we eliminate the build of `talk' and `talk' for any
>       system where neither `struct osockaddr' nor `<osockaddr.h>'
>       exist? Similar to the exclusion of `ping6' whenever "IPV6 !=
>       1".
> 
> Excluding ping6 is for different reasons, I can't see anything that
> actually uses osockaddr.  What do you think about the following patch?

The patch leads to compilable source code for GNU/Linux and OpenBSD.
Without firing a TALK server, the client `talk' starts seemingly
correct in both systems. I think the patch should be applied, bearing
in mind that `struct osockaddr' is the old, nowadays obsolete BSD socket.


Regards,

Mats