Re: [Plib-users] need help compiling plib

[Sebastian U. <ud...@ha...>]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, sjb...@ai... (Steve Baker) wrote:
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:48:23 -0500
> To: ud...@ha...
> From: sjb...@ai... (Steve Baker)
> CC: pli...@li...
> Reply-To: sjb...@ai...
> Subject: Re: [Plib-users] need help compiling plib

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> > The source file should include "sys/types.h", but it doesn't. (To the
> > original author: typedef'ing "socklen_t" to be "int" is not a solution.
>
> There are problems with some OS's (I think IRIX is one of them) with
> those things.  I don't think older Unixen define socklen_t - so you have
> to use an 'int'.

Okay. The problem is, however, that by not including "sys/types.h", the
current code even typedef's "socklen_t" to be "int" on machines that *do*
define socklen_t, which can be fatal when it comes to pointers to those
types.

As the manuals of standard-conforming UNIX systems do, I really suggest
including "sys/types.h" in addition to "sys/socket.h". It is a standard
header file - does IRIX miss it, too ? If yes, just add a check for it in
configure.in.


- Sebastian