compiling cvs 1.12.13

Sven Köhler skoehler@upb.de
Wed Mar 8 19:58:00 GMT 2006


>>> i'd like to compile cvs 1.12.13 for doing some testing, but it doesn't
>>> compile :-(
>>>
>>> Does somebody have a clue, what the following may mean and how i could
>>> work around it?
> 
> It looks like cvs is using an older version of gnulib's getaddrinfo.c
> replacement module, which until recently has had some bugs when used on
> cygwin (I know, because those same compile errors were present in CVS
> coreutils, prompting the fixes in gnulib).  As a workaround, you may be
> able to just drop in the latest copy of getaddrinfo.[hc] from
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/lib/?root=gnulib.  Otherwise,
> ask upstream at the cvs development list for them to pull in newer files
> from gnulib and spin cvs 1.12.14.

I had to add a #include <netdb.h>

Now at least getaddrinfo.c compiles fine.

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