Re: [PATCH] Compile fix for MSVC: Move poll.h out of sys-folder

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Erik Faye-Lund<kusmabite@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn<vfr@lyx.org>  wrote:
>>> In v1.7.7.1-432-g0f77dea (Oct 24 2011; Erik Faye-Lund; mingw: move
>>> poll out of sys-folder) poll.h was moved out of the compat/win32/sys
>>> folder. As the change in the Makefile also affects the MSVC build,
>>> the same must be done for poll.h in compat/vcbuild/include/sys/poll.h.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn<vfr@lyx.org>
>>> ---
>>>   compat/vcbuild/include/poll.h     |    1 +
>>>   compat/vcbuild/include/sys/poll.h |    1 -
>>>   2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>   create mode 100644 compat/vcbuild/include/poll.h
>>>   delete mode 100644 compat/vcbuild/include/sys/poll.h
>>>
>> This looks strange to me. vcbuild/include/poll.h will only prevent the
>> correct header from being included, while compiling an linking against
>> compat/win32/poll.[co]... That seems dangerous to me, because the
>> interface might be declared differently.
>>
>> Instead, I think compat/vcbuild/include/poll.h should be removed, and
>> _WIN32_WINNT set to a value below 0x600. That way the poll-stuff
>> doesn't get pulled in by winsock2.h (as it's Vista and above only).
>>
>> This was already discussed in your "[PATCHv2] Compile fix for MSVC" thread:
>> http://mid.gmane.org/CABPQNSaCRRRpEQPG1Mb4DovkMdQSBhHTm-i7y5M4iT+ndHX4XA@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> Here's the patch that fixes it.
> Johannes Schindelin was nice enough to create a commit based on my
> e-mail, feel free to pick it up and submit it:
>
> https://github.com/msysgit/git/commit/9ca803910f3625bf686699f6b0bf71a8c68bccae