[gst-devel] New UDPSrc in CVS.

[Tim Müller]

On Thursday 26 February 2004 15:53, Ramón García wrote:

> But there is a complication. The element has
> calls to IPv6 name resolving functions defined in
> libc, such as getaddrinfo(3). Thus it will probably
> not run if the libc installed in the system has IPv6
> support. Thus to enable runtime conditional support of
> IPv6, calls to that functions would have to be
> conditional as well, something like:
>
> getaddrinfo = dlsym(libc_handle, "getaddrinfo");
>
> If you know how to do this, please tell me :-).

To my knowledge getaddrinfo() is not IPv6-specific at all, so I don't really 
see the problem. Could you expand on that a bit? (The problem is probably 
rather that not every libc on the many systems that are to be supported has 
getaddrinfo()).

Cheers
 -Tim