libc/include/sys/errno.h

[Earnie Boyd]

J. Johnston wrote:
> 
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>> [removing cygwin-developers since that is a closed list]
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0400, J. Johnston wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, the variable is not historically declared const.  If you
>>> look at glibc, djgpp, and BSD, you will see that is declared as newlib
>>> does.  Therefore, the declaration should be left as-is.
>>
>>
>>
>> Would you object to making this entirely controlled by a __CYGWIN__ 
>> ifdef/else,
>> Jeff?
>>
> 
> I object to forking this for Cygwin just for convenience-sake.  I do not
> know the background behind the problem.  Could you perhaps explain why 
> Cygwin needs
> to have this as const and why there isn't a reasonable alternative 
> solution?
> 

#ifdef __CYGWIN__ already exists for this header.  I will take another 
look at what can be modified but it maybe required to be const by Cygwin 
due to c++.

Earnie.