You wrote: > >> This came up on guile-users while discussing the MinGW build of > >> Guile, see > >> > >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00028.html > >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00039.html > >> > >> Will gnulib maintainers consider this for inclusion, please? > > So this is about adding a workaround for hstrerror on MinGW, which > lacks it. > > Gnulib already has a ‘netdb’ module (maintained by Simon, Cc’d), so > perhaps that would be the right place to add the replacement > hstrerror. Simon, WDYT?
It seems like a good idea to add a workaround module for hstrerror, but I think it should be a separate module, although the prototype for the function may probably be in the netdb module? Compare how other replacement functions typically have their own module (I think). /Simon
