Hello! I have got one small idea on how to improve compatibility with cross-compiling Linux software. This time it's glibc.
At certain point glibc's rpcgen program (which is being compiled for host), relies on '#ifndef __u_char_defined' and '#ifndef __daddr_t_defined' in order to determine presence of 'u_char' and 'daddr_t' respectively (see libc/sunrpc/rpc/types.h). I have to patch this to add _BSDTYPES_DEFINED check in order to be able to cross-build glibc under Cygwin. What if we add also these Linux-style definitions to our includes ? P.S. I understand that actually it's glibc needs fixing because the same will happen on any other non-Linux OS. But i believe FSF will simply say "we don't care" and won't accept this fix. Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia -- 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
