Re: Non-standard types in public header files

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:45:16PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> Now that I think about this, one solution may be to avoid defining
> ssize_t altogether.  Instead:
> 
> @SSIZE_T@ gnutls_record_send( gnutls_session_t session, const void *data, 
> size_t sizeofdata);
> @SSIZE_T@ gnutls_record_recv( gnutls_session_t session, void *data, size_t 
> sizeofdata);

Look at how glib solves a similar problem. Of course, they define
their own types but they install a platform-specific .h file in
$prefix/lib/include (glibconfig.h). This is similar to the
gnutls-config.h suggested by Stepan Kasal.

AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([gnutlsconfig.h],
[
  outfile=gnutlsconfig.h
  cat >$outfile <<_EOF_
#ifndef __GNUTLSCONFIG_H__
#define __GNUTLSCONFIG_H__

_EOF_

  if test x$HAVE_SSIZE_T = xyes; then
    echo '#define GTLS_SSIZE_T ssize_t' >>$outfile
  else
    echo '#define GTLS_SSIZE_T long' >>$outfile
  fi

  echo '#endif /* __GNUTLSCONFIG_H__ */' >>$outfile
])

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