Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > Hi Simon, > > On mingw, the gethostname test fails for me: > > gethostname failed, rc -1 errno 10093 > FAIL: test-gethostname.exe > > The reason is that the WSAStartup function has not been called. Why not make > this initialization implicitly in the gethostname function? And likewise for > the socket() function? With that, the unit tests (test-select.c and > test-poll.c) > don't need to do this initialization explicitly any more. One less portability > problem when porting to mingw. > > Here are two proposed patches. I verified that the behaviour of test-select > and test-poll does not change, and it fixes the gethostname failure.
Looks fine to me, please push it. /Simon
