Re: glibc 2.16 and ping

[Mats Erik Andersson]

[Once more including bug-inetutils, after some private exchange.]

Söndag den 10:e maj 2020, klockan 00:28, skrev Gabor Z. Papp detta:
> * Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden>:
> 
> | > I'm trying to compile inetutils 1.9.4 on an old linux system, running
> | > glibc 2.16.
> 
> | I made test builds on Debian systems with glibc 2.7 and with 2.19.
> | The complete test suite is successful for me.
> 
> Could you send me the glibc 2.7 32bit _ping_ binary?
> Mabye the 2.19 too, I'll try to run on 2.16.

You reported in another letter that inetutils 1.7 functions properly,
but that inetutils 1.8 does not so with your 32-bit system. It is clear
from the first message that name resolution does not succeed.

Doing a difference check between version 1.7 and 1.8 of the directories
'libicmp/' and 'ping/', it strikes me that Gnulib introduces into
'Makefile.in' macros related to getaddrinfo() when moving from 1.7 to 1.8.
Could you experiment somewhat with 'config.h' in the manner of preferring
gethostbyname() over getaddrinfo()? Improvements?

Best regards,
  Mats E Adersson