Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: newbie question about monotone serve

[Andy Jones]

Thanks for the assist.

Sorry if 'broken' sounded pejorative; I was using it in the technical
sense, as in "exhibits a reproducible bug".

If it's just 'cos I have an older distro, that explains it.

I guess I'll have to brave the build of boost then, or upgrade to a
later version of Mandrake...

On 08/09/05, Matthew Gregan <address@hidden> wrote:
> At 2005-09-08T11:29:01+0100, Andy Jones wrote:
> > It seems to match my experience.  (In summary: Log of an IRC
> > conversation in April: a monotone user experienced the same symptoms
> > as me, was using the pre-built binary under red-hat seven.  It went
> > away when he compiled from source.)
> 
> > I'm using the pre-built binary on Mandrake 9.1.
> 
> > Can anyone confirm that the prebuilt binary is broken?
> > Is anyone using it without problems? On what system?
> 
> The binaries run the testsuite as part of the release process; so the
> prebuilt binary is not "broken" and is known to work (at least) on on
> the machine it was built on before it is even made available to the
> public.
> 
> What you (and the RH 7 user) are running into appears to be caused by
> the fact that the prebuilt binary is built on a modern system with a
> working getaddrinfo(); RH 7 and Mandrake 9.1 appear (from a distance) to
> be systems where getaddrinfo() is either broken or simply not present in
> glibc.
> 
> If you build a binary from source on your system, it should work fine
> (as the RH 7 user found), because autoconf will detect the
> missing/broken getaddrinfo() and use an alternate method.
> 
> Cheers,
> -mjg
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