Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> writes: > When the close module is used on Windows, lib/close.c calls > functions that are defined in libws2_32, but there is nothing > that will cause us to link against that library. Thus, this > commit adds $(LIB_CLOSE) to put on the linker command line to > supply -lws2_32 when necessary. > > This might need a little bit of explanation. When a program > actually uses sockets, through the sockets module, $(LIBSOCKET) > will link against the correct library. This change is useful for > indirect use of the ws2_32 library, via e.g. the gethostname > module. > > This commit is due to a problem showing up in PSPP. > > Comments?
Sounds good, it may explain this build failure: http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gnulib/log-200902061418122444000.txt /Simon
