Re: netdb.h, reentrant libc, h_errno
> >> features.h is included by almost every glibc header and contains some
> >> basic information. Without features.h you cannot use glibc at all.
> >> Without having loked at your environment, I would say add it.
> >
> > I don't this that will be neccessary. The LSB sort of defines one particular
> > set of values for the things in features, so the rest of the headers are
> > "hard coded" to those features. They don't need to include features.h to
> > figure anything out.
>
> As I've said, I didn't look at the LSB headers so far...
>
> Currently <features.h> does the following:
> - include <sys/cdefs.h>
> - defines all sort of defines
>
> The only reason I see directly to include <features.h> directly by an
> application is to get the values of __GLIBC__ and __GLIBC_MINOR__ if
> no other include file is used - but that's quite academical.
configure scripts through config.guess includes features.h directly to
work out the version of glibc. So I think we should be providing
something here for them, or a lot of packages will need some fiddling
to get them to compile.
Chris.
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cyeoh@au.ibm.com
IBM OzLabs Linux Development Group
Canberra, Australia
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