Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse reported that NetBSD 5.2 also has the same bug. Also, when writing configure tests that use <net/if.h> (such as for 'struct ifreq'), it is useful to know what pre-requisite headers are needed within that test.
* doc/posix-headers/net_if.texi: Add clarification. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> --- Pushing this, based on yesterday's thread. ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/posix-headers/net_if.texi | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index d9f6f89..282e060 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2012-09-06 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> + + net_if: give more details about the bug being fixed + * doc/posix-headers/net_if.texi: Add clarification. + 2012-09-05 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> net_if: new module diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/net_if.texi b/doc/posix-headers/net_if.texi index fa01b6e..a59669e 100644 --- a/doc/posix-headers/net_if.texi +++ b/doc/posix-headers/net_if.texi @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ net/if.h Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -This header file is not self-contained on some platforms: -FreeBSD 8.2, OpenBSD 5.1. +This header file is not self-contained on some platforms (needing +<sys/socket.h> to be included first): +FreeBSD 8.2, OpenBSD 5.2. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: -- 1.7.11.4