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 <markmc(a)redhat.com&gt; --- 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)