Re: LYNX-DEV Making lynx more portable and reliable

[John E. Davis]

On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:20:52 -0500 (CDT), Klaus Weide <address@hidden> said:
>Is h_errno defined on all platforms (except with MULTINET) that have
>a gethostbyname()?  Should this be added generally or just for some
>platforms?  (It seems that it is not needed in general for Unix etc.,
>otherwise there would be more lookup failures.)

This is what I use and it appears pretty portable:

#if defined(VMS) && defined(MULTINET)
# include "multinet_root:[multinet.include]netdb.h"
#else
# include <netdb.h>
# ifndef h_errno
extern int h_errno;
# endif
#endif 

--John
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