bug#59818: incomplete type 'struct pollfd', etc., when compiling tail on MacOS (patch included)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 04/12/2022 15:55, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> I received the errors for tail.c shown below when compiling coreutils on
> MacOS (11.6). Adding __APPLE__ to the #if defined for poll.h fixes the
> issue (see the diff at the bottom). Making this change matches that line
> to the one within check_output_alive().
>
> commit 324c188cfd8a1628c260e5003d309613a0c66e57 (August 29, 2022) made
> the change to check_output_alive(), but missed the change reported here.
>
> Dennis
>
> (HEAD: aaa306ad76d48b27efd75101d57b6ec5bf90362c)
>
> Error:
>
>     CC       src/tail.o
> src/tail.c:367:17: error: variable has incomplete type 'struct pollfd'
>     struct pollfd pfd;

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thank you,
Pádraig