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Re: hstrerror for MinGW
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: hstrerror for MinGW |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:09:42 +0100 |
You wrote:
> >> This came up on guile-users while discussing the MinGW build of
> >> Guile, see
> >>
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00028.html
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00039.html
> >>
> >> Will gnulib maintainers consider this for inclusion, please?
>
> So this is about adding a workaround for hstrerror on MinGW, which
> lacks it.
>
> Gnulib already has a ‘netdb’ module (maintained by Simon, Cc’d), so
> perhaps that would be the right place to add the replacement
> hstrerror. Simon, WDYT?
It seems like a good idea to add a workaround module for hstrerror, but
I think it should be a separate module, although the prototype for the
function may probably be in the netdb module? Compare how other
replacement functions typically have their own module (I think).
/Simon