Re: make bootstrap: need moral support. :-(

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:32:29 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> cc: address@hidden
> 
> >> The source code in process.c looks like this:
> >> #ifdef AF_INET6
> >>     case AF_INET6:
> >>       {
> >>         struct sockaddr_in6 *sin6 = (struct sockaddr_in6 *) sa;
> >>         uint16_t *ip6 = (uint16_t *)&sin6->sin6_addr;      <======= L2245
> 
> >This means that the IPv6 configury test is misbehaving.  Please look
> >into your headers and try to find out why the configure-time test
> >decides that your system supports IPv6, but `struct sockaddr_in6' is
> >not defined by your system headers.
> 
> In Linux 2.4.17, that struct is defined in the file
> linux-2.4.17/include/linux/in6.h/.  Emacs files.c don't #include this
> file at all.  I'll have a look at ./configure, sometime.

Thanks.

> >Btw, your workaround is not the best way to solve this, I think: each
> >mode has a mode hook, precisely for these situations.  Just define a
> >function that binds that key and add that function to help-mode-hook.
> 
> The key sequence needs binding only once.  Won't help-mode-hook be called
> every time a help command is invoked?

Yes, but so what?  Entering help mode is not exactly a real-time
operation ;-)