On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Tor Arntsen wrote:

> configure probably runs the equivalent of the following (something I
> extracted from configure, only adding a couple of printf's). It seems to
> determine if you have to explicitly enable ipv6 for ./configure or not.
> Funny thing is that socket(AF_INET6..) isn't enabled by default on IRIX,
> however ipv6 *does* work there if you give the configure script
> --enable-ipv6.

Actually, if the configure script finds that socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0)
works, it proceeds with checking for a working getaddrinfo() and only if that
function can resolve 127.0.0.1 fine it defines ENABLE_IPV6.

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