Re: [bug-inetutils] Bug in inetutils

[Mats Erik Andersson]

Hello again,

torsdag den 16 februari 2012 klockan 16:39 skrev Satya Ravipati detta:
> ???Hi Mats,
>       Thank you very much for the help, I could actually resolve that Issue 
> and get ahead of the Issue,
> (Now I think I am facing a genuine problem)

Despite first impression, you have actually found a valid issue.
However, it is not a bug of ours, rather with Solaris 10, which
points to an inaccuracy in GNU Inetutils!

> When I am making the src directory, I am getting error on hostname.c, with 
> below error
> I tried to Search for solution for the problem,  I found a blog that is very 
> similar to this issue, 
> He is saying that he did not have time to fix this issue, Can you please help 
> me on this.
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2011-11/msg00032.html
> 
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/zfs_home/user/satya/externaltools/inetutils-1.9.1/src'
>   CC     hostname.o
> hostname.c: In function `parse_opt':
> hostname.c:94: error: `sethostname' undeclared (first use in this function)

Some versions of Solaris (10 and 8 are claimed) , together with some AIX (7.1 
and 5.1)
as well as OSF/1 5.1, do not declare sethostname(3c) as expected in <unistd.h>,
 which all other unices do, including OpenSolaris. This fact was attended to 
recently
within Gnulib, viz. beginning of December 2011. This issue should be solvable 
using
the new Gnulib module "sethostname", which we have to examine.

Thank you for pushing on this matter. Hopefully this will convince my colleges
that it would be useful to locate a machine with Solaris 10 for our 
developmental
access.

Regards,
  Mats Erik Andersson, on behalf of GNU Inetutils.