Re: [libvirt] IPv6 structs on MacOS X

On 09/16/2010 04:52 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: <snip> > This message talks about the unportability of a field 's6_addr32' in > 'struct in6_addr'. Sure this is unportable: POSIX [1] specifies only the > presence of 's6_addr'. > > I don't see why gnulib should support this: An application can perfectly > access the 16 bytes of the s6_addr[] array. Why would it need to access a > specific part of it in a special way? My apologies. I should have been significantly clearer in what I was trying for there. :) (adding the libvirt devel mailing list back in, due to relevance) Tried compiling libvirt on OS X, which errored on this piece of IPv6 code: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-September/msg00243.html The message I quoted to Eric above, which you've then looked at, was danpb wondering whether we should be using gnulib to avoid the portability problem.