Andrew Dunstan wrote: >>> In cvs the file is marked as dead and gives a reference to cygwin's >>> w32api. >>> Maybe the answer is to simply note that the mingw-runtime binary from >>> sourceforge above 3.9 has a broken sys/time.h (it is not the file from >>> cygwin but the dead one from cvs). >> >> I think that soudns reasonable. Something for the mingw FAQ. Care to >> provide bruce with a patch? >> >> > > No, that means that we can't build with currently released Mingw, AIUI. > I think the solution is probably to rename our replacement gettimeofday > and add a #define to translate the calls. That's pretty much what we've > done in other cases, and has seemed to be a more robust strategy than > supplying replacements for standard library routines with routines of > the same name.
But if I read you right, they're removing it in the next version? That would indicate that they included it by mistake? (But sure, in general that's not a bad idea) //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
