Hi Stefan,
> > I agree that the declaration of alarm is a way "not telling truth"
> > here, but I found some applications, which are dependent to
> > such a "not honest" way.
>
> I find it surprising that they actually work with such a trick, but
> there always are interesting surprises in porting ...
>
> > I could agree to remove the declaration from headerset by using a
> > macro clause '__MINGW_POSIX_ALARM' (in io.h). The declaration of
> > SIGALRM I dislike to remove, but if it is necessary to remove this
> > define, please describe me the reason more detailed.
>
> Actually, openssl is using availability of SIGALRM to decide between
> alarm-based implementation and a replacement, so removing alarm
> itself doens't really help. Anyway, now that I know which way to go,
> I can also suggest to patch openssl in such a way as to simply
> #undef SIGALRM for mingw-w64 instead of including the header
> needed for the dummy "alarm" implementation.
>
> Something different:
> Why are there both
> /home/mingw-w64/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-mingw32/4.4.0/include/float.h
> /home/mingw-w64/x86_64-pc-mingw32/include/float.h
> (at least in the linux 32-bit package I'm using for cross-compilation)
> with only the last containing prototypes for _finite and a couple
> of other functions, but the first being the one that's found and used
> by the compiler?
Normally the local version should be used. There are some small but
important difference between the gcc version and our.
> It's causing the current compile failure of wxWidgets (trunk) visible
> on that daily rebuild page (at least until the next recompile, I've
> added a hack to my local mingw-w64-headers to work around
> that problem)...
I missed to change implementation files necessary by prototype changes I
did. Thanks for telling me that.
Committed revision 451.
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> P.P.S.: Concerning that type of the return value of the thread function,
> I mentioned in some old mail, your software was right and wx
> was wrong (has been fixed in the meantime...).
Regards,
Kai
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