Re: [boost] [asio].[hp-ux].[1_33_1] Build related issue

From: Christopher Kohlhoff (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-08 08:36:12

Hi Oliver,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:55:17 +0100, Oliver.Kowalke_at_[hidden] said:
> Hello Christopher,
> HP/UX has a 'bug'! You can not use ip_mreq with _XOPEN_RESOURCE_EXTEND
> compiler flag! In the system header file of HP/UX the struct ip_mreq is
> only defined if _XOPEN_RESOURCE_EXTEND is not defined.
> If you don't apply the _XOPEN_RESOURCE_EXTEND you get problems with
> other functions and structures (for instance struct msghdr is different,
> socklen_t is not defined so  etc.)
> I already have had a call open by HP support. The support noticed that
> it is not intuitive that multicasting is not possible with X/Open
> conforming functions (_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED) and sended a change
> request (patch) to the HP/UX development center.
> Maybe the guys implementing HP/UX in the development center will provide
> a patch.

Argh, just lovely. Thanks for the info. It looks like HP-UX support will
have to wait until after 0.3.8 then.

Cheers,
Chris