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Release of the <sys/ipc.h> and <sys/shm.h> files


In the upcoming release of cygwin, is it possible to exclude the
<sys/ipc.h> and <sys/shm.h> files from the distribution?  Gerrit Haase
pointed out to me that the perl-5.8.0 configuration script generates
"entry point not found" errors (in one of those dratted dialogue
boxes) for shmat(2) under current snapshots, since it successfully
compiles a test program, against the <sys/shm.h> header, and then
tries to run it, with the predictable result (AFAICT: ever tried
reading a Larry Wall-style configure script?).

I can't see how any configure script can easily avoid such noise under
the current arrangement and worse, it might do no more than compile a
test file, and not run it too, and so configure the software to use
shared memory.

Is there any difficulty with excluding these files? or, am I behind
the times and this is already the intention? There is some discussion
of this in
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-03/msg00010.html
but it's not clear what the final result of this was (except that the
header files are still in the snapshot).

// Conrad




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