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Re: Bug#453161: Patch to fix libpri FTBFS



Hi Libc maintainers,

Could you please comment on this issue?

Thank you!

On 29/11/07 at 00:52 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:48:33AM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>> I will upload after confirming that this changing sys/time.h is supposed
>> to be OK (I don't believe it is, but the maintainers may disagree for a
>> good reason).
>
> According to POSIX, headers are not generally allowed to make symbols from 
> other headers visible (IIRC).  But since stddef.h does not actually define 
> any symbols, it might be an exception.
>
> Regardless of any other reason that this change might have occurred, it can 
> only improve POSIX compliance, since other systems will almost certainly 
> need this change as well.
>
>> Lucas, did you have any more of these?
>
> There was at least one more.  I know because I patched it, too.  It's 
> #453165 (and the related bug, #453159).
>
 
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