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Re: hstrerror for MinGW
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: hstrerror for MinGW |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:52:38 +0100 |
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Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> skribis:
> You wrote:
>
>> >> This came up on guile-users while discussing the MinGW build of
>> >> Guile, see
>> >>
>> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00028.html
>> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00039.html
>> >>
>> >> Will gnulib maintainers consider this for inclusion, please?
>>
>> So this is about adding a workaround for hstrerror on MinGW, which
>> lacks it.
>>
>> Gnulib already has a ‘netdb’ module (maintained by Simon, Cc’d), so
>> perhaps that would be the right place to add the replacement
>> hstrerror. Simon, WDYT?
>
> It seems like a good idea to add a workaround module for hstrerror, but
> I think it should be a separate module, although the prototype for the
> function may probably be in the netdb module? Compare how other
> replacement functions typically have their own module (I think).
Yes, makes sense to me.
Eli: would you be willing to do that? I guess a possible template would
be the ‘getaddrinfo’ module, which has a conditional function
declaration in netdb.in.h and code in a separate C file.
Thanks,
Ludo’.