[vbox-dev] svn build fails today.

[Frank Mehnert]

Yes, I think we should add a separate #define for IPv6 which is disabled
by default and can be enabled manually.

Kind regards,

Frank


On Wednesday 12 September 2012 18:35:29 Perry Halbert wrote:
> Any determination on how to proceed forward with this?  The way it
> stands building the VNC extension pack stops the normal build.  From
> what I see it looks like 0.9.9 is going to be a requirement but that pkg
> is not native to any stable build I have.
> 
> On 09/10/2012 07:00 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2012 20:55:36 Oliver Loch wrote:
> >> I installed 12.04 in a VM and checked the headers. It's as Klaus said,
> >> the rfb.h file defines IPv6 support that is not there.
> >> 
> >> I got the source from Ubuntu and the main source from sourceforge and
> >> both are defining LIBVNCSERVER_IPv6 even if it is not there.
> >> 
> >> Maybe we should check if LIBVNCSERVER_IPv6 is defined and if
> >> LIBVNCSERVER_PACKAGE_VERSION >= 0.9.9
> > 
> > Yes, such a check is required but such a check is quite difficult
> > (LIBVNCSERVER_PACKAGE_VERSION is a string). I wonder how a software
> > is supposed to detect the interface version of that package.
> > 
> >> Seems to be a bug in libvncserver. Sorry.
> >> 
> >> @Klaus: what other issues did the patch create?
> > 
> > For instance, the patch uses a Windows function which is Windows 2000+.
> > Our Guest Additions do also support Windows NT4, therefore we did the
> > quick hack and disabled the runtime change for Windows hosts.
> > 
> > There were several other issues and some of them were fixed. See the
> > current SVN for more details, for example on how to use RTStrCopy().
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> > 
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