Hi Simon, Mark McLoughlin noticed that the getaddrinfo test fails when there's no network, and sent the patch below.
This looks like a good idea. Though maybe we should make it skip the test (return 77) after saying why: fprintf (stderr, "skipping getaddrinfo test: no network?\n") If you like it, let me know and I'll take care of it. Subject: [PATCH] gnulib/tests: allow test-getaddrinfo to pass when offline From: Mark McLoughlin <mar...@redhat.com> To: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> Cc: libvir-list <libvir-l...@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:30:27 +0000 Message-Id: <1232958627.3724.16.ca...@blaa> Sometimes - yes, even in the latter part of the first decade of the twenty first century - one doesn't have access to the Internet while one is hacking. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <mar...@redhat.com> --- gnulib/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnulib/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c b/gnulib/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c index a887cb1..246021a 100644 --- a/gnulib/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c +++ b/gnulib/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ int simple (char *host, char *service) if (res != 0) { + /* EAI_AGAIN is returned if no network is available. Don't fail + the test merely because someone is down the country on their + in-law's farm. */ + if (res == EAI_AGAIN) + return 0; /* IRIX reports EAI_NONAME for "https". Don't fail the test merely because of this. */ if (res == EAI_NONAME) -- 1.6.0.6