Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On OSF/1 4.0, <sys/select.h> exists but provides only a forward declaration
>> of 'struct timeval', no definition of this type.
>
> Sigh. So it seems we need a sys_select header module and a separate
> select function after all: someone might want to get the 'struct
> timeval' structure out of sys/select.h without calling the select
> function.
I don't think so. It just means that the "self-containedness" test of
sys/select.h fails by mistake.
What about this patch? Bruno, can you give it a try on OSF/1?
Paolo
2008-09-29 Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/sys_select.in.h: Include sys/time.h.
* m4/sys_select.h.m4: Test that struct timeval is fully defined.
* modules/sys_select: Depend on sys_time.
diff --git a/lib/sys_select.in.h b/lib/sys_select.in.h
index 255c02f..396f209 100644
--- a/lib/sys_select.in.h
+++ b/lib/sys_select.in.h
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
<sys/types.h>. */
# include <sys/types.h>
+/* On OSF/1 4.0, <sys/select.h> provides only a forward declaration
+ of 'struct timeval', and no definition of this type.. */
+# include <sys/time.h>
+
/* The include_next requires a split double-inclusion guard. */
# @INCLUDE_NEXT@ @NEXT_SYS_SELECT_H@
diff --git a/m4/sys_select_h.m4 b/m4/sys_select_h.m4
index f9468af..865a414 100644
--- a/m4/sys_select_h.m4
+++ b/m4/sys_select_h.m4
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_HEADER_SYS_SELECT],
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether <sys/select.h> is self-contained],
[gl_cv_header_sys_select_h_selfcontained],
[
- AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <sys/select.h>]], [[]])],
+ AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <sys/select.h>]],
+ [[struct timeval b;]])],
[gl_cv_header_sys_select_h_selfcontained=yes],
[gl_cv_header_sys_select_h_selfcontained=no])
])
diff --git a/modules/sys_select b/modules/sys_select
index f2f7698..4f13917 100644
--- a/modules/sys_select
+++ b/modules/sys_select
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Depends-on:
alloca
include_next
sys_socket
+sys_time
configure.ac:
gl_HEADER_SYS_SELECT
