Subject: Re: Making wget
From: Glenn Spell <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:36:19 -0500

On 26 Jan 2000 around 9:38AM (-0000) Norling,
Gunnar wrote:
> Some days ago there where a discussion involving the wget program.
>
> ftp.o(.text+0x848):ftp.c: undefined reference to `h_errno'
> http.o(.text+0x750):http.c: undefined reference to `h_errno'
>
> This is my versions:
> gcc --version: 2.95.2
> uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-4.0 <machine> 1.1.0(0.16/3/2) 2000-01-20
> 00:22:41 i686 unknown

I get the same results. I'm using gcc-2.95 with the 1999-12-05
dll (the newer dlls crash on me) on Win95.

The following patch worked for me. I gleaned the information
from /usr/include/netdb.h.

I have no idea why this is necessary for some and not for others.

-------------------------------------------------
--- src/ftp.c.orig       Thu Sep 10 09:21:36 1998
+++ src/ftp.c            Wed Jan 26 12:39:46 2000
@@ -52,3 +52,8 @@
 #ifndef h_errno
+# ifdef __CYGWIN__
+extern int * __imp_h_errno;
+#  define h_errno (*__imp_h_errno)
+# else
 extern int h_errno;
+# endif
 #endif
--- src/http.c.orig      Thu Sep 10 10:14:44 1998
+++ src/http.c           Wed Jan 26 12:40:30 2000
@@ -70,3 +70,8 @@
 #ifndef h_errno
+# ifdef __CYGWIN__
+extern int * __imp_h_errno;
+#  define h_errno (*__imp_h_errno)
+# else
 extern int h_errno;
+# endif
 #endif
-------------------------------------------------

-glenn

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