Longstanding __USE_W32_SOCKETS hiccup.

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 7 17:25:00 GMT 2009


On Aug  7 18:08, Dave Korn wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > I haven't been paying close attention here but why are we bothering to
> > accommodate use of winsock2.h and time.h.  This is really only for
> > Cygwin itself right?
> 
>   Nope.
> 
> > Otherwise, I don't think we should worry about people trying to mix
> > winsock.h in true Cygwin programs.
> 
>   It seems to have worked well enough for GNAT in gcc-4.3.2 and earlier, but GCC
> HEAD has undergone some sort of refactoring that means we now get a duplicate
> definition of timeval during compilation of libada.  This is aimed at fixing
> that problem.

Why is libada including winsock2.h when being build for Cygwin?  That's
a bug.


Corinna

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