Consequences of major libc changes

[Matthew Dillon]

:Hasso Tepper wrote:
:> * There is major problem with DragonFly that too many packages need
:>   patching to include unistd.h - especially stuff using C++, but C
:>   packages as well. This might be right thing to do, but I still would
:>   like to avoid it. Any ideas?
:
:As two persons already asked, I didn't explain clearly enough ... ;).
:
:The problem is that there is too many packages with common problem (for 
:DragonFly) - they don't include unistd.h, but compile regardless of that 
:on Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD, seems. Many of such packages are C++. Maybe 
:there is something wrong with our compiler? Examples of such packages are 
:ham/fldigi, x11/nucleo and editors/notecase.
:
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:Hasso Tepper

    I am all for adding additional #includes in our headers for making these
    packages build painlessly.  My only requirement is that it be documented
    in comments next to the extra #include's so we know why they are there.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>