A warning building Emacs-cvs with recent Cygwin DLL

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jan 25 15:11:00 GMT 2008


On Jan 25 12:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Angelo Graziosi <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXX.XX>
> > 
> > With Cygwin DLL 1.5.25 (and the changes to 'tz...', I suppose), building 
> > Emacs from CVS gives this warning:
> > 
> > ...
> > gcc -c  -Demacs -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DUSE_LUCID  -I. -I/tmp/emacs/src 
> > -I/usr/X11R6/include    -g -O2 -Wno-pointer-sign  /tmp/emacs/src/strftime.c
> > 
> > /tmp/emacs/src/strftime.c:58: warning: '_tzname' redeclared without 
> > dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored
> > ...

Btw., nothing has changed in the way tzname (_tzname) is declared in
newlib's time.h header for years.

> > It seems that the following simple patch avoid it:
> > =================================================
> > --- strftime.c.orig	2007-01-14 04:24:37.000000000 +0100
> > +++ strftime.c	2008-01-24 12:04:40.031250000 +0100
> > @@ -55,9 +55,13 @@
> >   #endif
> >   #if HAVE_TZNAME
> >   #ifndef USE_CRT_DLL
> > +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> > +extern __IMPORT char *tzname[];
> > +#else
> >   extern char *tzname[];
> >   #endif
> >   #endif
> > +#endif
> 
> Thanks.  But it's better to put this kind of platform-dependent stuff
> in src/s/cygwin.h, not in general source files.  Would that work for
> you?

As I wrote in my reply on the Cygwin list, there should be no reason
to declare tzname on POSIX conformant systems at all.  Just including
<time.h> is the way to go.

The extern declaration should be guarded by an OS-agnostic configure
test which checks whether tzname is declared in time.h or not.


Corinna

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