Re: unistd.h has to be included twice to avoid compile errors on MinGW

[Philip Nienhuis]

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Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Philip Nienhuis wrote on 2012-08-26:
> > See this thread:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-01/msg00473.html
> >
> > When compiling code invoking gnulib under MinGW, the statement
> >     #include<unistd.h>
> > has to present in duplo to avoid certain errors of the kind: "... is not
> > a member of 'gnulib'" (where ... could be e.g., gethostname, isatty,
> > unlink, etc).
> >
> > This issue has not been solved until now; so here's again a request to
> > look into it.
>
> This is a complicated issue that we cannot solve by guesswork. What we need
> is an unambiguous step-by-step "how to reproduce" recipe. What source code
> file to compile (or alternatively, what sources to download), with which
> compiler to configure it (there are many mingw versions floating around), etc.

Isn't the analysis in the thread linked to in my post insufficient? 
Looks fairly step-by-step to me.

I'm not a MinGW developer - I have mailed this bug report at the request 
of octave devs (see this thread:
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2012-August/029710.html
(line wrap!))

Hopefully some MinGW devs can jump in?

Thanks Bruno,

Philip