Bug#174040: h_errno

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 04:02:17PM -0500, Ari Pollak wrote:
> This patch does not fix h_errno linking behavior as well, which still
> breaks programs such as WineX (and Wine, I believe):
> 
> gcc -o wine miscemu/miscemu.o -L./dlls -lntdll -L./library -lwine
> -L./unicode -lwine_unicode -lm
> ./library/libwine.so: undefined reference to `h_errno'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> This worked fine before -5.

Make wine include <netdb.h> and it will go away.  The source is broken.

h_errno will suffer from the same runtime problems as errno; I didn't
"fix" it because it's less critical (should I?  Comments from te
list?).

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer