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Re: [Fwd: unistd.h for Cygwin]
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:46:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: unistd.h for Cygwin]
- References: <3C1A6E9F.C41AE273@t-online.de>
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:26:55PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
>
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> >
> > Bonjour:
> >
> > I am rebuilding the tetex-beta package:
> > I have just encountered an error message
> > which did not occur during the last built.
> >
> > ../kpathsea/getopt.h:99: redefinition of `struct option'
> >
> > The error comes out because the `/usr/include/getopt.h' is read before
> > by `/usr/include/unistd.h' which reads two headers:
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > /* unistd.h for Cygwin. */
> >
> > #ifndef _UNISTD_H_
> > #define _UNISTD_H_
> >
> > # include <sys/unistd.h>
> > # include <getopt.h>
> >
> > #endif /* _UNISTD_H_ */
> > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >
> > Is it a bug or a feature ?
A feature. At least it's supposed to be one. According to
SUSv2 you have to include unistd.h to include the declaration
of getopt() and friends:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/getopt.html
Corinna
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