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Eric Blake wrote:
> Currently, cygwin does not provide getaddrinfo, even though
> SUSv3 specifies it in <sys/socket.h>/<netdb.h>.  CVS Coreutils
> has been using gnulib to provide a replacement definition,
> but recently gnulib was updated to work on mingw, reusing
> the winsock headers/libraries to provide getaddrinfo.  As a
> result, coreutils is now trying to link in -lws2_32 to get
> the winsock version of getaddrinfo (and I suspect that will
> not work properly).

I have used the following as a workaround in several packages:

http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/getaddrinfo/

You need only the getaddrinfo.{c,h} from the tarball (and the README for 
license?) and include it in your sources; exactly how depends on the 
package.


Yaakov

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