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Re: Should sys/types.h include sys/sysmacros.h?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 10:57:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: Should sys/types.h include sys/sysmacros.h?
- References: <20020501125600.GE3160@tishler.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:56:00AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>In the process of trying to build the latest Python CVS, I get a link
>error due to the following line:
>
> res = mknod(filename, mode, makedev(major, minor));
>
>After building successfully under Linux, I determined that the above
>works because Linux's sys/types.h includes sys/sysmacros.h.
>
>Should newlib's sys/types.h include sys/sysmacros.h (possibly only for
>Cygwin)?
>
>I tried searching:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/index.html
>
>but came up empty.
If it makes things more linux compliant and there is no corresponding
susv2 ruling, then go for it. Could you send a patch to the newlib mailing
list? If it's conditionalized for cygwin, I can approve it.
cgf