FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2009/2/7 Christos Zoulas <christos AT zoulas.com>:
> On Feb 6,  9:45pm, jklowden AT freetds.org ("James K. Lowden") wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: [freetds] Getting it to all work on HPUX
>
> | Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> | > > I think we should use an autoconf test to detect the presence of
> | > > socklen_t instead of resorting to such ugliness .
> | > >
> | >
> | > We already test for socklen_t. The problem is that HP-UX use
> | > socklen_t* for last getsockopt argument in some cases and int in some
> | > others (giving different defines).
> |
> | It reminds me of the gethostbyname_r fiasco.  Solvable with autoconf, but
> | not pretty.  Perhaps another project has already written the approprite
> | m4?
>
> Look in the tcsh's configure.in. Thank you HP *again*!
>
> christos

I don't see nothing about getsockopt in tcsh's configure.in, only
about socklen_t (which we already test in our configure script). The
problem is not socklen_t but the use of it in getsockopt !!
Yes, my workaround is ugly...

freddy77