Bug#453161: Patch to fix libpri FTBFS

[Aurelien Jarno]

Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> Hi Libc maintainers,
> 
> Could you please comment on this issue?

As far as I understand, the patch is correct. If you need a header you
have to include it and do not assume it is included by another one. This
also improves portability among various OS.

Aurelien

> Thank you!
> 
> On 29/11/07 at 00:52 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:48:33AM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>>> I will upload after confirming that this changing sys/time.h is supposed
>>> to be OK (I don't believe it is, but the maintainers may disagree for a
>>> good reason).
>> According to POSIX, headers are not generally allowed to make symbols from 
>> other headers visible (IIRC).  But since stddef.h does not actually define 
>> any symbols, it might be an exception.
>>
>> Regardless of any other reason that this change might have occurred, it can 
>> only improve POSIX compliance, since other systems will almost certainly 
>> need this change as well.
>>
>>> Lucas, did you have any more of these?
>> There was at least one more.  I know because I patched it, too.  It's 
>> #453165 (and the related bug, #453159).
>>
>  


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