[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix IPv6 Support for TCP Streams

[Alexander Strasser]

On 2013-07-13 12:03 +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> On 2013-07-06 22:17 +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > attached patch fixes IPv6 support for TCP streams.
> > 
> > It enables detection of gethostbyname2() on GNU/Linux and MPlayer
> > correctly resolves IPv6 addresses when trying to connect to web
> > stream.
> > 
> > I have successfully tested accessing and playing an MP3 file from a
> > web server via IPv6.
> 
>   this works for me and is analog to how strsep was handled in 11b73048 .
> 
>   There is another problem that is "fixed" by this patch but actually
> is something completely different. I will work on that, but please
> ping me if I do forget about this unrelated problem. It should be
> fixed really...

  To be more precise I was wondering why in my build with
--enable-debug gethostbyname2 was detected as available.
Turned out it was because --enable-debug drops warning flags.
Patch submitted in a new thread. Review and testing appreciated.

>   Back to this problem: I intent to push your patch tomorrow evening!

  As some have noticed already: Committed.

  Thanks for your work Erik!

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  Alexander