Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> continue to work under cygwin. Btw, could you quote the part from >> config.log which explains _why_ the m4 macro fails under cygwin? It >> isn't clear from the M4 check that it would fail under cygwin, but maybe >> it is just my lack of knowledge with cygwin. Still, if it is obscure, >> we might add a comment. > > It fails because gl_HEADER_SYS_SOCKET sets HAVE_WINSOCK2_H=0 if > ac_cv_header_sys_socket_h = yes, and so winsock2.h is never included in > the AC_TRY_LINK in gl_SOCKETS: > > configure:4791: checking if we need to call WSAStartup in winsock2.h and > -lws2_32 > configure:4827: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 conftest.c -lws2_32 >&5 > conftest.c: In function `main': > conftest.c:30: error: `WORD' undeclared (first use in this function)
Thanks for testing. I think the test "just happens" to fail under cygwin, but as long as that is always consistent, I think that is fine. /Simon
