Re: ipv6 in guile 1.5.6: configure bug and fix

[Marius Vollmer]

Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:

> This configure check:
>
> [...]
> 
> loses on NetBSD 1.5.2-stable (i.e., fails to declare HAVE_IPV6).  This
> is because the test does not include <sys/types.h>, which man inet6
> indicates should be included, and the test program fails with syntax
> errors due to lacking u_int8_t etc.

Thanks for reporting this!

Does the following test "whether sockaddr_in6 has sin6_scope_id"
succeed?

I have recorded this as bug 'ipv6-not-detected-on-netbsd' and marked
release critical.

> With this patch, guile 1.5.6 builds and make check gives (on an
> i386):
> 
> Testing /home/gdt/QUIST-current/guile/pre-inst-guile ...
> with GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/gdt/QUIST-current/guile/test-suite
> ERROR: regexp.test: regexp-substitute/global: ("" "" ""): port is string port 
> - arguments: ((regular-expression-syntax "make-regexp" "empty 
> (sub)expression" #f #f))
> ERROR: regexp.test: regexp-substitute/global: ("" "" ""): port is #f - 
> arguments: ((regular-expression-syntax "make-regexp" "empty (sub)expression" 
> #f #f))
> ERROR: srfi-19.test: SRFI date/time library: #<procedure time-utc->date (time 
> . tz-offset)> respects local DST if no TZ-OFFSET given - arguments: 
> ((system-error "putenv" "~A" ("No such file or directory") (2)))
> FAIL: syncase.test: (ice-9 syncase) loads

Could you try to investigate this?