Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals

[Guillem Jover]

On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 08:22:54 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>        * The problem with rpl_ioctl() and GNUlib for GNU/kFreeBSD
>          [1] must be resolved. It is beyond my understanding why
>          Simon is not attending to this problem, be it that he
>          prefers GNU/Hurd.
> 
> We only use ioctl from <stropts.h> anyway, what about this?
> 
> diff --git a/telnetd/telnetd.h b/telnetd/telnetd.h
> index 7b5c033..b5b4a5b 100644
> --- a/telnetd/telnetd.h
> +++ b/telnetd/telnetd.h
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
>  #ifdef HAVE_SYS_PTYVAR_H
>  # include <sys/ptyvar.h>
>  #endif
> -#ifdef HAVE_STROPTS_H
> +#if defined HAVE_STROPTS_H && !defined HAVE_IOCTL
>  # include <stropts.h>
>  #endif
>  #include <sys/ioctl.h>

So while this might fix the issue, I think this is a workaround too,
although better than the one I applied in Debian. I'll try to report
the underlying issue to the gnulib maintainers.

thanks,
guillem