On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

>       what are you planning to do after checking IPv6 support in the kernel?
>       applications should be written so that it would work on both
>       IPv4-only, IPv6-only and IPv4/v6 dual stack kernels, by using
>       getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3).  you do not need to check if you
>       write applications properly.

Yes, in the ideal world that might be true. In the real world, one has
to rely on ./configure and other awful hacks to just declare a couple
of innocent-looking address-related variables (and to compile on more
than one platform).

Alex.


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