Re: Cannot build octave: savewd should depend on sys_wait? [Windows/MSVC]

[Jim Meyering]

Michael Goffioul wrote:
> While trying to compile current octave source with MSVC, I got an error at the
> compilation of savewd.c, because of missing sys/wait.h header. Indeed that
> header is included directly by savewd.c, but the savewd module does not depend
> on sys_wait. So the gnulib replacement for sys/wait.h is not pulled in (and
> MSVC9 does not provide that header).
>
> Should savewd module depend on sys_wait one?

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the report.
The lib/savewd.c I see does not directly include sys/wait.h.
How is it being included for you?
I.e., if you include the diagnostic, we should see.