On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 10:53 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Dominick Samperi wrote: > >> > >>> Building R 2.3.0 fails under Red Hat 9.0 because > >>> ssize_t is not defined in src/modules/internet/sock.h. > >>> Inserting #include <sys/types.h> at the top of this > >>> file fixes the problem. > >> > >> That's interesting: POSIX says it must be defined in unistd.h, and that is > >> included before sock.h in all the C files AFAICS (and this is why all the > >> Unix-alike platforms tested before release do compile that module). > >> > >> It's a bug in RH9 (there seems to be no 9.0), and that is maintained by > >> Fedora Legacy -- do they have an update? > > > > [SNIP] > > I have no idea, but have modified the sock.h to have a belt-and-braces > approach.
POSIX Programmer's Guide shows ssize_t was added to <sys/types.h> in IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 as a result of changing the function declarations for read() and write(). The change to "sock.h" would seem appropriate, not careful, as the header file assumed ssize_t was previously defined. ---------------------------------------------------------- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
