[avahi] Making avahi work on Solaris

Padraig O'Briain Padraig.Obriain at Sun.COM
Thu Jun 22 07:52:21 PDT 2006


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 22.06.06 09:07, Padraig O'Briain (Padraig.Obriain at Sun.COM) wrote:
>
>   
>>> Mmmh, this doesn't look right to me. It touches FreeBSD support in
>>> Avahi, so I am reluctant to merge this as long as it isn't #ifdef'ed
>>> for Solaris only.
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> Updated patch attached for this one.
>>     
>
> Merged in r1226.
>
> Is Solaris support complete now? I would like to release 0.6.11 soon
> and it would be cool if I could announce full Solaris compatibility
> along with it.
>
> Lennart
>
>   
The main problem with Solaris is that nss-mdns is not ported to Solaris. 
I had a quick look at it but it seems non trivial.

The parts of the avahi API used by gnome applications, i.e. ekiga, 
gnome-vfs , vino and gnome-games should work.

Padraig


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