Bug 168939

Summary:	dev-lang/ruby ebuild needs different config parameters for -ipv6
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roy Wright <roy>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Ruby Team <ruby>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dtardon, f.holler
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Roy Wright 2007-03-01 22:03:43 UTC

When the underlying OS does not support IPv6, ruby should be compiled with:

  ./configure --enable-ipv6 --with-lookup-order-hack=INET

Upstream bug:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1698&aid=5627&group_id=426

Thank you

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2008-12-15 21:19:59 UTC

A problem here might be that we can't really determine whether the underlying OS is truely lacking ipv6 support. We can't just go with the ipv6 USE flag since this only indicates whether the user wants to enable specific ipv6 extensions, not whether ipv6 is available and working properly on the OS level.

Furthermore this appears to be a bug in glibc? So it should really be reported and fixed there. Ruby just seems to be relaying the information to the getaddrinfo libc call.

Comment 2 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-07-23 20:37:57 UTC

*** Bug 278574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-09-09 14:48:42 UTC

Fixed in 1.9.1_p243.

Comment 4 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-10-06 20:00:20 UTC

...and ruby-1.8.7_p174-r1

Comment 5 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2010-01-10 22:05:35 UTC

...and ruby-1.8.6_p388.

We now have this in all supported Ruby branches: 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9. I think the bug can be closed now.