HP-UX 11.11 Your vendor has not defined Socket macro AF

somuchh8 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I've posted once before on perlmonks and my experience as been a wonderful one. Now I've got a new problem that google.com can not resolve for me. This is ( in my mind ) a very difficult problem so take this as a challenge if you're bored.

Ok, my problem is I'm compiling the Socket6 module on HPUX 11.11 to enable support for my Net::SNMP module to communicate via SNMPv1 using IPv6 addresses / protocol.

1) I've tested my build box and made sure that it does indeed have an IPv6 interface configured and working.

2) I've PING'd from my HPUX 11.11 build box to another IPv6 machine on my subnet and it responded which helps prove that IPv6 on my system is possible.

3) I've searched the /usr/local/sys/ directory and found that socket.h and netinet/in.h also includes the AF_INET6 definition.

My compile of the Socket6 modules works like a charm but when I run "make test" I see the error that "Your vendor has not defined Socket macro AF_INET6". I was first getting an unresolved symbol resolution on boot_socket6 but that went away once I moved to a machine which actually had an IPv6 interface installed and configured.

Here is the output from my building of the Socket6 module:

[root@~ Socket6-0.20]# /opt/eHealth/web/aview/perl/bin/perl Makefile.P
+L

checking for gcc... no

checking for cc... cc

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of executables...

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no

checking whether cc accepts -g... yes

checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... none needed

Unknown user: rdk.

path: Undefined variable.

checking whether your Perl5 have PL_sv_undef... no

checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E

checking for egrep... grep -E

checking for getaddrinfo... yes

checking for getnameinfo... yes

checking for gethostbyname2... no

checking for gethostbyname2 in -lsocket... no

checking whether your system has IPv6 directory... no

checking for getipnodebyname... yes

checking for getipnodebyaddr... yes

checking for inet_pton... yes

checking for inet_ntop... yes

checking whether you have sa_len in struct sockaddr... no

checking whether you have sin6_scope_id in struct sockaddr_in6... yes

checking for socklen_t... yes

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating config.pl

config.status: creating gailookup.pl

config.status: creating config.h

Checking if your kit is complete...

Looks good

Writing Makefile for Socket6

[root@~ Socket6-0.20]# make

cp Socket6.pm blib/lib/Socket6.pm

        /opt/eHealth/web/aview/perl/bin/perl /opt/eHealth/web/aview/pe
+rl/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp -noprototypes -typemap /opt/eHealth/web/aview/
+perl/lib/ExtUtils/typemap  Socket6.xs > Socket6.xsc && mv Socket6.xsc
+ Socket6.c

        cc -c    +z -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -D_LARGE
+FILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 +O2 +Onolimit    -DVERSION=\"0.20\
+"  -DXS_VERSION=\"0.20\" +z "-I/opt/eHealth/web/aview/perl/lib/PA-RIS
+C2.0/CORE"  -DPERL_POLLUTE Socket6.c

Running Mkbootstrap for Socket6 ()

        chmod 644 Socket6.bs

        rm -f blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.sl

        LD_RUN_PATH="" /usr/bin/ld  -b +vnocompatwarnings Socket6.o  -
+o blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.sl

        chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.sl

        cp Socket6.bs blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.bs

        chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.bs

[root@~ Socket6-0.20]# make test

        rm -f blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.sl

        LD_RUN_PATH="" /usr/bin/ld  -b +vnocompatwarnings Socket6.o  -
+o blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.sl

        chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.sl

        cp Socket6.bs blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.bs

        chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/Socket6/Socket6.bs

        PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /opt/eHealth/web/aview/perl/bin/perl "-MExtU
+tils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/
+*.t

t/use....Your vendor has not defined Socket macro AF_INET6, used at /o
+pt/Socket6-0.20/blib/lib/Socket6.pm line 270

Compilation failed in require at t/use.t line 37.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/use.t line 37.

t/use....dubious

        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)

DIED. FAILED tests 1-3

        Failed 3/3 tests, 0.00% okay

Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed

----------------------------------------------------------------------
+------------------------------

t/use.t      255 65280     3    6 200.00%  1-3

Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 3/3 subtests failed, 0.00% okay.

*** Error exit code 2

 

Stop.
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So now I'm pulling my hair out. I need this to work. I can't find any real evidence that IPv6 and perl is broken on HPUX but maybe I'm not looking in the right place. Any help you Masters of Perl have is much appreciated. I'm on the 6th floor of my office and there is a large window close by looking more and more inviting every passing minute. Thanks! Andy

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Re: HP-UX 11.11 Your vendor has not defined Socket macro AF_INET6 by Anonymous Monk on Apr 09, 2008 at 04:30 UTC
What is socket.ph and where do I get it? It's a perl4-style file defining values for system networking constants. Sometimes it is built using h2ph when Perl is installed, but other times it is not. Modern programs "use Socket;" instead. You may need to reinstall socket and make sure AF_INET6 is defined http://public.activestate.com/pub/apc/perl-current/ext/Socket/	[reply]
Re^2: HP-UX 11.11 Your vendor has not defined Socket macro AF_INET6 by somuchh8 (Novice) on Apr 09, 2008 at 13:49 UTC
Nope, that wasn't it but I you did start to get me thinking about the original Socket module. I checked the changelog of Socket6 and saw that they made the export of AF_INET6 optional in the Socket6 module I was building. It's optional because in perl 5.10 the Socket module was exporting AF_INET6 and then were would be a conflict with the Socket6 export. I removed the check making it 'optional' since I am using perl 5.82. Here are the lines I changed in Socket6.pm: `Original: push @EXPORT, qw(AF_INET6) unless defined Socket::AF_INET6; push @EXPORT, qw(PF_INET6) unless defined Socket::PF_INET6; Fixed: push @EXPORT, qw(AF_INET6); push @EXPORT, qw(PF_INET6);` [download] Now I don't get the error that AF_INET6 isn't defined I've tested that I can indeed communicate via SNMP using an IPv6 address. Hooray!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: HP-UX 11.11 Your vendor has not defined Socket macro AF_INET6 by parv (Parson) on Apr 09, 2008 at 23:26 UTC
If you have perl 5.8 version of Socket module, which apparently does not export AF_INET6, then should not the original code (in new Socket6) have stuffed *F_INET6 in @EXPORT? That raises the question: do you have perl 5.10 installed too?	[reply]
Re^4: HP-UX 11.11 Your vendor has not defined Socket macro AF_INET6 by Anonymous Monk on May 09, 2008 at 19:33 UTC