[Nix-dev] guile 2.0.7 test suite fails without IPv6 support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Peter,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> skribis:

> the test suite for guile-2.0.7 fails on my machine, complaining:
>
>   ERROR: socket.test: AF_INET6/SOCK_STREAM: bind - arguments: ((system-error "bind" "~A" ("Cannot assign requested address") (99)))
>   ERROR: socket.test: AF_INET6/SOCK_STREAM: bind/sockaddr - arguments: ((system-error "bind" "~A" ("Cannot assign requested address") (99)))
>
> This looks to me like the build requires IPv6 support -- which my
> machine doesn't have. An obvious way to hack around this issue is to
> disable the test suite, but that's not really satisfactory. Is there
> another, less intrusive solution?
>
> Ludo, do you have a suggestion?

No simple suggestions.  I think these tests should be skipped when IPv6
support is missing.  I’ll try to do that for 2.0.8, which is due in a
couple of days.

Ludo’.