Commit 116462a5 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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Added a check that 'localhost' resolves before the gethostbyname_r() checks, 

as they depend on the resolving of that name. It seems this mistake is
happening from time to time and people have a hard time finding out why
configure can't detect their gethostbyname_r()-setup.
parent 217e0331

configure.in

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@@ -64,8 +64,32 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug, 
       AC_MSG_RESULT(no)

)





dnl ************************************************************

dnl check for "localhost", if it doesn't exist, we can't do the

dnl gethostbyname_r tests!

dnl 



AC_DEFUN(CURL_CHECK_WORKING_RESOLVER,[

AC_MSG_CHECKING([if "localhost" resolves])

AC_TRY_RUN([

#include <string.h>

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <netdb.h>



int

main () {

struct hostent *h;

h = gethostbyname("localhost");

exit (h == NULL ? 1 : 0); }],[

      AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)],[

      AC_MSG_RESULT(no)

      AC_MSG_ERROR([can't figure out gethostbyname_r() since localhost doesn't resolve])



      ]

)

])



dnl ************************************************************

dnl check for working getaddrinfo()

dnl

AC_DEFUN(CURL_CHECK_WORKING_GETADDRINFO,[
@@ -681,6 +705,9 @@ then 
Set to explicitly specify we don't want to use thread-safe functions)

else



  dnl check that 'localhost' resolves first

  CURL_CHECK_WORKING_RESOLVER



  dnl dig around for gethostbyname_r()

  CURL_CHECK_GETHOSTBYNAME_R()