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Re: Why does gnulib generate alloca.h, sys/types.h, unistd.h on GNU/Linu


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Why does gnulib generate alloca.h, sys/types.h, unistd.h on GNU/Linux?
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 08:55:23 -0700
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On 08/02/2018 05:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
Why do local copies of these files get generated on my (ostensibly
modern and compliant) system?

I expect it's because nobody has bothered to tune the build procedure so that no-op .h files are omitted. The replacement sys/types.h, for example, is needed only on MS-Windows but a no-op version is built everywhere else. Patches welcomed.




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