On Aug 17 23:09, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/17/2010 8:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > Both cygwin-1.7.6-1 and sunrpc-4.0-3 install > > /usr/include/rpc/{types,xdr}.h. Depending on which package is installed > > last, this causes spurious compilation failures, because the two > > implementations differ on whether they need sockaddr_in to be declared. > > Now that xdr functions have been subsumed into cygwin proper, is it > > time to obsolete sunrpc? > > Yes, especially as it is orphaned, completely out of date -- even the > upstream version has been replaced in "real" *nix distros by libtirpc or > derivatives thereof. > > > On the other hand, libvirt wants to #include > > <rpc/rpc.h>, which only sunrpc provides; is it time to provide that > > header as part of base cygwin? > > No. > > What needs to happen is I need to get off my butt and ITP the following, > already ported, packages: > > libtirpc-0.2.1-1 > rpcbind-0.2.0-1 > rpcgen-2.11.90_20100305-1 > > Together, these provide a complete replacement for the existing sunrpc > package, and are ported to work with cygwin's xdr implementation. > > The only problem is, I haven't had a chance to test rpcbind (it > compiles, but I haven't set up the daemon, nor written a foo-config > script for it, nor written the detailed cygwin documentation that > daemon/services require). There might also be some cygwin-specific > changes necessary, since even with cygrunsrv, the win32 service > environment != unix daemon environment. (e.g. user authentication, > changing uid/gid of remote procedure calls, etc...) > > If I posted my current packages, could somebody help out with that? > Right now my hands are kinda full trying to get the sysroot libtool > stuff shepherded...
What about creating an interim package of sunrpc without any headers, and just upload the libtirpc-0.2.1-1 package which, hopefully, provides the missing headers in its -devel package? Note that I'm not talking about rebuilding the sunrpc package, just re-packing. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat