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Subject: RE: octave configure on cygwin snapshot
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:00:16 +0100
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On 29 August 2007 17:51, Eric Blake wrote:

> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> 
>> As your testcase shows, the inclusion of <sys/time.h> manages to define
>> struct timezone, but then subsequent includes trigger the macro that
>> changes the spelling to _timezone, and your declarations all end up
>> referring to the incomplete type struct _timezone, hence the compiler
>> error.  So something in cygwin's headers needs to change in order to make
>> sure struct timezone is not hidden by the macro in <cygwin/time.h>.
> 
> At first, I thought the solution might be as simple as 


  It would be worth going back through the archives; IIRC, this was a recent
change made by CV in response to a PR on the list.  Any un-cautious solution
would probably just regress back the original bug...


    cheers,
      DaveK
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