Problem with fd_set configuration in X11R7.0-RC0/libs/xproto-7.0

Gregor Richards Gregor at codu.org
Fri Aug 12 07:13:03 EST 2005


Gregor Richards wrote:

> In X11R7.0-RC0, in xproto-7.0, the configuration is failing on HPUX 
> 11.00 because it can't find the fd_set struct. It's trying to #include 
> <sys/select.h>, which does the trick on a number of systems (at least 
> GNU/Linux and Solaris), but fd_set seems to be in sys/types.h on HPUX. 
> Furthermore, sys/types.h actually includes sys/select.h on both 
> Solaris and glibc (GNU/Linux). It seems like it would be more portable 
> to look in sys/types.h for fd_set rather than sys/select.h.  Is there 
> a reason why it's using sys/select.h instead of sys/types.h right now?
>
> Thanks for any response!
>
> - Gregor Richards
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Upon further inspection, I see that the latest incarnation of 
configure.ac in CVS has it fixed because OSX had the same problem.  So, 
never mind, this bug has been fixed in the latest CVS, which should work 
on HPUX just fine.

 - Gregor Richards


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