cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 06/02/2014 10:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  6 08:29, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> on cygwin-1.7.28 64 bit but not on cygwin-1.7.27,
>> (only system difference) compiling octave I see:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> /pub/devel/octave/octave-3.8.0-2/src/octave-3.8.0/liboctave/system/oct-passwd.cc
>> :114:25: error: '::getpwent' has not been declared
>>     return octave_passwd (::getpwent (), msg);
>>                           ^
>> [...]
>> Is something slightly changed in the  relative system headers ?
>
> I don't know anything about octave, but what has changed is that newlib
> is finally introducing BSD-like visibility macros.  The pwd.h header now
> contains this:
>
>    #if __XSI_VISIBLE >= 500
>    struct passwd   *getpwent (void);
>    void             setpwent (void);
>    void             endpwent (void);
>    #endif
>
> The default settings per the sys/cdefs.h header are:
>
>    #define __POSIX_VISIBLE         200809
>    #define __XSI_VISIBLE           700
>    #define __BSD_VISIBLE           1
>    #define __ISO_C_VISIBLE         2011
>
> unless your environment defines one of
>
>    _XOPEN_SOURCE
>    _POSIX_C_SOURCE
>    _ANSI_SOURCE
>    _C99_SOURCE
>    _C11_SOURCE
>    _GNU_SOURCE
>
> Have a look at the end of /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h, it explains things.
>
>
> Corinna
>

probably I am missing something obvious, but should not

/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h

be included in some way in
/usr/include/pwd.h

to make working the

     #if __XSI_VISIBLE >= 500
     struct passwd   *getpwent (void);
     void             setpwent (void);
     void             endpwent (void);
     #endif

?

Regards
Marco



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