Re: [Bug-wget] alpha release (1.13.4.56-620c)

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

"Steven M. Schweda" <address@hidden> writes:

>    Obviously not, or we wouldn't be having this discussion.  For Wget
> 1.13.4 on VMS, I added these modifications to src/connect.c, because, as
> I recall, the argument that HAVE_SYS_SOCKET existed for some reason was
> unsuccessful.  I never understood why, so I thought that I'd take
> another run at it this time.  Perhaps my mind is simply too weak for
> this stuff, but I can't help thinking that if the #define directives for
> HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H and HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H in the generated src/config.h
> are correct, then actually using these macros to guard the relevant
> #include directives should be harmless, at worst.  But what do I know?

if that is the problem, you can submit a patch which re-introduces these
macros.  It might not be elegant, but if it solves this problem then
there are no problems to leave them there, for systems using "configure"
they are just a no-op.

Providing such a patch helps more than complaining about portability of
GNU programs, I think.

Giuseppe