[Bug-gnulib] GNULib Module nanosleep Breaks CVS Build On Windows

[Conrad T. Pino]

Hi All,

Derek Price of the CVS Project http://www.cvshome.org/
recently pulled GNULib updates into CVS source tree and
our Windows build using Visual Studio C++ 6.0 tool set
broke.  This is what we know so far:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2004-05/msg00127.html

and Derek's feedback follows:

> From: Derek Robert Price [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 17:07
> To: Conrad T. Pino
> Cc: Bug CVS; Dennis Jones
> Subject: Re: Windows Build Killer: lib/nanosleep.c
> 
> >Function "nanosleep" references can be fixed in compile
> >and link with a combination of
> >
> >A. "#include <winsock.h>" in "lib/nanosleep.c" file,
> 
> Hrm.  It's probably worth running this one by the GNULIB folks.
> Sometimes for a single prototype they will choose to just declare it
> themselves in the source file.
> 
> I might opt to fix nanosleep to honor HAVE_USLEEP instead and use a
> system usleep when one can be found.  Since we were previously
> defining HAVE_USLEEP in windows-NT/config.h, I would assume that
> Windows has one.  You should run that by the GNULIB folks too.
> 
> >B. "#define nanosleep rpl_nanosleep" in "config.h" file.
> 
> This should be fine.
> 
> Derek

Best regards,

Conrad Pino