Re: [mp2 Patch] Resubmitting OpenBSD related patches

Philippe M. Chiasson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:25, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> > Philippe M. Chiasson wrote:
> >
> > > Dunno where they all went in the past, but as Stas reminded me, I am
> > > still holding off on 2 OpenBSD-related patches to make sure Apache-Test
> > > generates httpd.conf that will bind on IPv4 addresses. This is important
> > > on a platform like OpenBSD where IPv6 is prefered by default and IPv4
> > > mapped addresses are disabled by default.
> >
> > any chance we can figure out that ipv6 like-ness is needed dynamically, so to 
> > keep things simple for most other users? Also please test that it doesn't 
> > break things with apache-1.3 (the simplest good test is to run the 
> > httpd-test/perl-framework with apache-1.3).
>
>
> Hrm, I have looked into it, and the problem is not to figure out if the
> system is IPv6 or IPv4 by default, but we also need to check if there is
> support for IPv4 mapped addresses.
>
> At this point, I wasn't able to find a way to figure it out dynamically.
> It sure would be nicer if we could just "figure it out"

But will your change deterministically work with both?

> > > Also addresses the problematic and annoying warning about DL_GLOBAL in
> > > DynaLoader.
> >
> > +1 for this one, don't forget to update Changes (and I haven't checked for tabs 
> > ;)
>
>
> Cool, it's in.

Thanks.

> > in the future if you can submit patches to different features separately, that 
> > would be nice.
>
>
> Yes, I apologize for that slipup

No prob ;)



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