Joe Halpin wrote:
> Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Joe Halpin wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out why some test cases are failing on my
>>> Solaris box.
>>> I was having a little trouble trying to use gdb because the README
>>> file in
>>> the tests directory says I should be able to just type run to start
>>> things
>>> off. however, that results in an error about curl not being in
>>> executable
>>> format (because what it's pointed to is a script).
>>
>>
>> Right, "runtests.pl -g" assumes that configure --disable-shared has
>> been used.
>> I guess the proper fix for this is to use libtool somehow to start gdb,
>> instead of just blindly assume that 'curl' is the final executable.
>
> Ok, I rebuilt it with --disable-shared and ran it in the debugger. The
> problem is that getnameinfo() is failing with a return of 3, which means
> invalid argument. After poking around I found that if I unset the
> NI_WITHSCOPEID bit in the flags argument it works, and all tests pass.
>
> This doesn't make sense to me because NI_WITHSCOPEID is defined in
> netdb.h. Anyone here have a clue about this? This is Solaris 9 (Intel)
> with gcc 3.3.2 (from sunfreeware.com).

What is NI_WITHSCOPID supposed to do? It's not documented in either the
Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 man page, nor does it appear to be POSIX. What do
we use it for?

Joe
Received on 2004-03-28