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Re: {Patch] java.net network functions


> Am Donnerstag, 21. November 2002 14:55 schrieb Richard Earnshaw:
> 
> > The difference is that previously we didn't depend on sys/socket.h
> > existing (which is why it's wrapped in autoconf include guards). 
> > But with your change we now assume it does exist (we use a function
> > from it even if we didn't include it).  A newlib libc does not
> > provide this header so we then get the error.
> 
> The question is what header to include to get socket on a newlib 
> system ? And I wonder how that worked before as there where an 
> unconditional inclusion of socket.h and nothing special to get 
> socket() on a newlib system. I just moved code to a different 
> location. I really wonder how that can break this way.

No.  There is no socket on a newlib system.  End of story.  The libjava 
code is supposed to work without the networking parts if sockets aren't 
available.

R.


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