Sorry didn't see it (& still can't in my inbox - where was it sent?)
Mine was a hack based on reading that sa_family_t should be 16 bits (in
RFC 2553 IIRC) to solve a cygwin specific problem.
If you have a general solution then that is much better than mine
thank you,
- Stuart
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am confused why you didn't like the following patch I posted, which
> pulls the family data type length right out of the structure, rather than
> having to configure it for every OS that doesn't have sa_family_t?
>
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> deststar wrote:
>
>>Jason Tishler wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:54:21PM +0100, deststar wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On cygwin sa_family_t was undeclared, adding the following line:
>>>>typedef unsigned short sa_family_t;
>>>>to both:
>>>>src/port/getaddrinfo.c
>>>>src/include/libpq/pqcomm.h
>>>
>>>
>>>Isn't the attached or fixing Cygwin itself a better approach?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Yes it does seem better, attached is a proposed patch to cygwin.h &
>>configure.in (incase cygwin gets it in future)
>>Have tested with make installcheck & it works fine.
>>If you see no problems I will sumit to patches
>>thanks,
>
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