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Suggestion: improve cross-compiling ability
- From: Fedin Pavel <p dot fedin at samsung dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:07:12 +0400
- Subject: Suggestion: improve cross-compiling ability
Hello! I have got one small idea on how to improve compatibility with
cross-compiling Linux software. This time it's glibc.
At certain point glibc's rpcgen program (which is being compiled for host),
relies on '#ifndef __u_char_defined' and '#ifndef __daddr_t_defined' in
order to determine presence of 'u_char' and 'daddr_t' respectively (see
libc/sunrpc/rpc/types.h). I have to patch this to add _BSDTYPES_DEFINED
check in order to be able to cross-build glibc under Cygwin.
What if we add also these Linux-style definitions to our includes ?
P.S. I understand that actually it's glibc needs fixing because the same
will happen on any other non-Linux OS. But i believe FSF will simply say "we
don't care" and won't accept this fix.
Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
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