net001 test failure

[Simon Marlow]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Simon Marlow wrote:
>> The test net001 from the network package is failing on my RedHat 9 
>> box, so I went investigating.  Bear in mind I'm completely ignorant of 
>> IPV6.  This test invokes
>>
>>   Network.listenOn (PortNumber 22222)
>>
>> and gets:
>>
>>   socket: unsupported operation (Address family not supported by 
>> protocol)
>>
>> This machine has getaddrinfo(), so the IPV6 support is enabled.
> 
> It appears that Red Hat 9's IPv6 support is completely broken.  I think 
> the simplest thing to do about this is to make an explicit check for RH9 
> in the configure script and turn off IPv6 support if we detect it.  Red 
> Hat EOLed RH9 years ago, so I don't think investing much effort in it is 
> warranted.
> 
> Does this seem reasonable?

Obviously it's not worth investing a lot of effort in getting this working.  I 
should really upgrade the OS on this box.  My main concern was that there wasn't 
a real bug lurking.

Cheers,
	Simon