Re: [exim] AIX Build Notes

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Mike Meredith
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] AIX Build Notes
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Mike Meredith wrote:

> Well there's an easy answer to that problem ... just let me know if you want
> an account on an AIX system.


Thanks for the offer, but I'm not sure it is actually worth it, because
all I would ever do is check compilation every now and again, and it
would be better if some real AIX user did that on a candidate release or
snapshot.

> > Why doesn't putting something in os-AIX.h work?
>
> Because os.h is included before any os header files, any definition of
> SOCKLEN_T will conflict with that required by the os. SOCKLEN_T is used by
> two include files in AIX ... /usr/include/netinet/in.h and
> /usr/include/sys/socket.h (at least). The result is that defining SOCKLEN_T
> in os-AIX.h results in screenfuls of somewhat inscrutable errors relating to
> the os include files.


Sigh.

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