Re: Stuff missing in gnulib needed for MinGW

2008-01-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson asked: > What do people think about having dummy functions in gnulib? Do they > serve a purpose, or do they hide problems and lead to confusion? If they are far away from emulating the Unix functionality, IMO they contribute to hiding problems. One reason not to put these into gn

Re: Stuff missing in gnulib needed for MinGW

2008-01-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have done a quick port of Shishi to MinGW and noticed some things that > were needed but for which there were no gnulib replacements: > > getuid > getpwnam > syslog > struct passwd from pwd.h > res_query from arpa/nameserv.h and -lresolv > C_IN, T_TXT,

Stuff missing in gnulib needed for MinGW

2008-01-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
I have done a quick port of Shishi to MinGW and noticed some things that were needed but for which there were no gnulib replacements: getuid getpwnam syslog struct passwd from pwd.h res_query from arpa/nameserv.h and -lresolv C_IN, T_TXT, T_SRV etc from arpa/nameserv.h netinet/in6.h resolv.h getho