Re: problem compiling guile 1.4 with glibc2.2.1

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: Robert Schweikert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:56:07 -0500
> 
> When trying to compile guile-1.4 on a system with glibc2.2.1 I got the
> following message:

[snip]

> After I commented out the line in net_db.c the package compiled and
> instlled OK. Of course I have no clue how to test this if what I did
> makes sense or works since I don't know how.

This has been reported recently in

http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-guile/2001-February/002241.html

and is fixed in CVS since 2000-10-01.

> After I commented out the line in net_db.c the package compiled and
> instlled OK. Of course I have no clue how to test this if what I did
> makes sense or works since I don't know how.
> 
> If someone could let me know if this change is reasonable I'd appreciate
> it.

The change is correct.

Regards,
  'martin