<resolv.h> requires <netinet/in.h>

Pierre A. Humblet pierre@phumblet.no-ip.org
Mon Dec 8 23:04:00 GMT 2008


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From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" 
To: <cygwin-patches>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 5:45 PM
Subject: <resolv.h> requires <netinet/in.h>


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| This affects both minires-1.02 and Cygwin 1.7.0-34.  STC based on a
| configure test:

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This is far from the 1st time that this issue comes up.
resolv.h is completely standard, it comes from a bind distribution.

Every version of man resolver that I have ever seen specifies:

SYNOPSIS 
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <netinet/in.h>
     #include <arpa/nameser.h>
     #include <resolv.h>

So it's up to the user to include the right files.
Sure we can make an exception for Cygwin, but the same program can then fail elsewhere.

Pierre



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