From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:07:49 GMT Subject: Re: cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino Message-ID: <81b0412b0601190707g5613a755l7457d8b76039c0ea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060119130009.GA28365@pasky.or.cz> On 1/19/06, Petr Baudis wrote: > But of course when this goes on, soon the gcc commandline will get > really awfully ugly. This is why something _like_ autoconf is a good > thing - you can just detect if the system headers provide the type and > #define it only when they don't. not you. Someone has done the job of detecting things for you. It's just a fair amount of hard work badly done.