Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2002/12/17/08:51:48
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:12:47AM +0100, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:26:27AM -0800, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> > > >As promised, I have started to check the releases
> > > >of cygwin by bootstrapping them.
> > > >This one got pretty far, all the way to libstdc++-v3.
> > > >
> > > >The error is :
> > > >../../../../include/getopt.h:115: declaration of C function `int
> > > >getopt()'
> > > > conflicts with
> > > >/usr/include/sys/unistd.h:125: previous declaration `int getopt(int,
> > > >char* const*, const char*)' here
> > >
> > > In case it isn't clear, I *do not care* about this problem. I am able to
> > > [more venting]
> > > How many times do I have to say this???
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > IMHO the easiest way to fix this is to remove the getopt prototype from
> > unistd.h and include getopt.h instead. This will define HAVE_DECL_GETOPT
> > and the build will not fail. I might create a patch if you agree.
>
> Unfortunately this is newlib. Adding the getopt prototype unconditionally
> in July was obviously not combined with testing this on Cygwin. :-(
>
> AFAICS, the prototypes should be in a `#ifndef __CYGWIN__' bracket or
> (better) in a `#ifndef __GETOPT_H__' bracket plus defining __GETOPT_H__.
>
Why not define
#ifndef HAVE_DECL_GETOPT
#define HAVE_DECL_GETOPT 1
#endif
in unistd.h likewise to getopt.h ?
Thomas
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