[gentoo-amd64] Re: getaddrinfo(): Bad value for ai_flags

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> posted 4593A5E0.7010505@ilievnet.com,
excerpted below, on  Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:09:20 +0200:

> whois (from net-misc/whois-4.7.19) gives me:
> 
> whois gentoo.org
> getaddrinfo(whois.publicinterestregistry.net): Bad value for ai_flags

[snip]

> So I did "emerge -1 glibc emul-linux-x86-baselibs libidn whois" but it
> didn't solve the problem. Any ideas?

I'm not a whois expert by far (anyone have a link to a decent tutorial
handy?), but on I'm on ~amd64 here, so have whois-4.7.20 (which is
keyworded ~amd64) merged, and that whois query returned what looked like
valid data to me, here.

One thing I can say, however, is that the emul-linux-x86-baselibs has
nothing to do with it, since it's 32-bit and wouldn't even load in the
process space of a 64-bit whois process.  32-bit and 64-bit processes and
libraries simply don't mix, the whole reason the 32-bit emul-linux-x86-*
and -bin packages are necessary in the first place.  (A very few packages,
including gcc/glibc/sandbox, compile separate code and normally separate
files for each bitness, but they are special cases.)

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