Re: getaddrinfo needs socklen, sync from coreutils

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> This is redundant. The module dependency from 'getaddrinfo' to 'socklen'
>> already implies that gl_SOCKLEN_T must be invoked from configure.ac,
>> directly or indirectly. No need to repeat the module dependencies in the
>> *.m4 files.
>
> Right you are.  I undid the change to m4/getaddrinfo.m4 (in both
> gnulib and coreutils).
>
> I also installed into gnulib the getaddrinfo.c patch mentioned in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2005-09/msg00273.html>
> since it is related to the getaddrinfo.m4 patch, is just a bugfix
> patch, and nobody has objected.

Thanks to both of you.
I've also done this for coreutils:

        * jm-macros.m4 (gl_MACROS): AC_REQUIRE([gl_SOCKLEN_T]) here,
        now that it's no longer required by getaddrinfo.m4.