IPv6 patch for BSD/KAME

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Mon Jun 25 14:09:00 EDT 2007


Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> It seems to be an oddity with OS X.  Here's a well-timed patch that 
> Thomas Schilling sent two days ago, which seems to be appropriate:
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2007-June/007644.html

That should indeed fix the build for BSD boxes.  However, the underlying 
problem is that the existence of a s6_addr32 field in in6_addr isn't 
required by RFC 2553.  So I'll cook up a patch that uses s6_addr, which 
*is* required, and hence ought to be more portable.

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