Re: would like to break sys_select's dependency on sys_socket

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> I am planning to make some changes to GNU Emacs which the
> gnulib sys_select module would be helpful for.  But sys_select
> depends on sys_socket, and that drags in some stuff
> like m4/sockpfaf.m4 and m4/sys_uio_h.m4 that I'd rather
> avoid.  Any objection if I remove this dependency?  It appears
> that it's needed only because of native Windows platforms, and
> applications that use gnulib shouldn't have to do extra work
> just to support Windows.

Is it native Windows or MinGW?

I don't see anything directly in m4/sockpfaf.m4 that is used by
sys_socket.in.h, but I could miss it.

m4/sys_uio.m4 appears to be for 'struct iovec', maybe sys/socket.h is
required to provide it?

/Simon