Re: hstrerror for MinGW

[Ludovic Courtès]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> skribis:

> You wrote:
>
>> >> This came up on guile-users while discussing the MinGW build of
>> >> Guile, see
>> >> 
>> >>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00028.html
>> >>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00039.html
>> >> 
>> >> Will gnulib maintainers consider this for inclusion, please?
>> 
>> So this is about adding a workaround for hstrerror on MinGW, which
>> lacks it.
>> 
>> Gnulib already has a ‘netdb’ module (maintained by Simon, Cc’d), so
>> perhaps that would be the right place to add the replacement
>> hstrerror. Simon, WDYT?
>
> It seems like a good idea to add a workaround module for hstrerror, but
> I think it should be a separate module, although the prototype for the
> function may probably be in the netdb module?  Compare how other
> replacement functions typically have their own module (I think).

Yes, makes sense to me.

Eli: would you be willing to do that?  I guess a possible template would
be the ‘getaddrinfo’ module, which has a conditional function
declaration in netdb.in.h and code in a separate C file.

Thanks,
Ludo’.