On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:34:38PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 05:59:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Perhaps a more relevant question is why ecpg/preproc is including > >> that header. > > > #include <netdb.h> with -D_REENTRANT includes it. > > preproc.c: > > #include "postgres_fe.h" > > #include "c.h" > > #include "port.h" > > #include <netdb.h> > > Well, port.h is certainly doing a fine job of polluting the namespace. > Maybe we should pull out the stuff that depends on netdb.h and pwd.h > into some other header that isn't going to get included so widely. > > > ADD has the same problem. > > There's no way that we are going to be able to dodge every single symbol > that any random system header on any random platform might define --- > especially when you get into the less-well-standardized headers like > these. We have to think smaller in terms of what headers we include > everywhere.
Well, we've built on most versions of Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 UNIX, Redhat Linux, and IRIX and this is the only symbol conflict we ran into. So, it's not a big problem. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org