On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 03:50:53PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >Compiling a file which #include's <sys/signal.h> in C89 mode fails: > >$ echo "#include <sys/signal.h>" > test.c >$ gcc -c test.c >$ gcc -c -std=c89 test.c >In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:107, > from test.c:1: >/usr/include/cygwin/signal.h:74: error: expected >specifier-qualifier-list before 'pthread_attr_t' >/usr/include/cygwin/signal.h:80: error: expected >specifier-qualifier-list before '__uint32_t' >/usr/include/cygwin/signal.h:96: error: expected >specifier-qualifier-list before 'pid_t' >/usr/include/cygwin/signal.h:270: error: expected ')' before 'int' >In file included from test.c:1: >/usr/include/sys/signal.h:152: error: expected ')' before 'int' > >The problem is that both <cygwin/signal.h> and an #ifdef __CYGWIN__ >section of <sys/signal.h> need those typedefs from <sys/types.h>, but >the latter is only #include'd #ifdef _POSIX_THREADS, which is off in C89 >mode. > >I see two possible solutions: > >1) Unconditionally #include <sys/types.h> in <sys/signal.h> (newlib), OR >2) #include <sys/types.h> in <cygwin/signal.h>. > >Since this appears to be Cygwin specific, I went for the latter. Patch >attached.
WDLD? cgf
