X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=HVyxpRDxZEnhg3OrvCB4gQrZ82WJkW/GmIx0Bf4jFI9 eoj/UrNeyNA+FleI+TtIzWGcbRZZhDqiKdFfdRet270gbiSpkqZVhcdlTtXU/pLM p8Q1f0rf6LQhLaTuJ2KgKAc1QLPnBPTIcCJGMSBKSPvKQoLV+EHKlgfesUHpVTc8 = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=yNg/11huWQAtXzX1QckhB6wwUuc=; b=SYR5hmyLn1PnZLlRO f5fuPxVFcGhOU4nG98/zVfWRhcDLsi4KjqMJA/2YKATecteE/YINLoW6Ln9CZjAw zURGgLoCcGy9KxZ/6pMyValifarsnYD+FY/GM9O1VVK0fIhm6m6rR9l9T5slifzn EQfYw47FxA8KfxwBIOKk5uCylw= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ee0-f46.google.com X-Received: by 10.14.95.134 with SMTP id p6mr7713220eef.73.1391682000007; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 02:20:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52F361C5.3000807@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:19:49 +0100 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ? References: <52F339CA DOT 5070305 AT gmail DOT com> <20140206090117 DOT GD2821 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20140206090117.GD2821@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 06/02/2014 10:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 6 08:29, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> on cygwin-1.7.28 64 bit but not on cygwin-1.7.27, >> (only system difference) compiling octave I see: >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> /pub/devel/octave/octave-3.8.0-2/src/octave-3.8.0/liboctave/system/oct-passwd.cc >> :114:25: error: '::getpwent' has not been declared >> return octave_passwd (::getpwent (), msg); >> ^ >> [...] >> Is something slightly changed in the relative system headers ? > > I don't know anything about octave, but what has changed is that newlib > is finally introducing BSD-like visibility macros. The pwd.h header now > contains this: > > #if __XSI_VISIBLE >= 500 > struct passwd *getpwent (void); > void setpwent (void); > void endpwent (void); > #endif > > The default settings per the sys/cdefs.h header are: > > #define __POSIX_VISIBLE 200809 > #define __XSI_VISIBLE 700 > #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 > #define __ISO_C_VISIBLE 2011 > > unless your environment defines one of > > _XOPEN_SOURCE > _POSIX_C_SOURCE > _ANSI_SOURCE > _C99_SOURCE > _C11_SOURCE > _GNU_SOURCE > > Have a look at the end of /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h, it explains things. > > > Corinna thanks for the hints for what I can see "_GNU_SOURCE" is defined in both cases at configure stage and reported in config.status and config.h I will look to compare the preprocessor output to see why building on 1.7.28 the "/* Everything and the kitchen sink. */" is not pulled in Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple