Hi,
Thank u jermy for the suggestion, I guess the value
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
should be in  corelib/ncbilcl.bsd rather than /corelib/ncbicl.fbd.

It worked for me.

-Mahesh


>From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
>To: Mahesh Chittur <dataduplex@hotmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: fd_set undeclared
>Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:21:39 -0700 (PDT)
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>On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Mahesh Chittur wrote:
>
> > i was compiling ncbi toolkit, in the file ncbimsg.c  gave a compile-time
> > error as <sys/types.h> does not
> > include definitions for fd_set . I included the  header file 
><sys/types.h>,
> > and still give the compilation error as
> >
> > " 'fd_set' undeclared (  first use in this function )"
>
>Did you get my earlier suggestion?
>
>Since its corelib/ncbilcl.fbd defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, I think you need to
>also increase _XOPEN_SOURCE. Try adding to corelib/ncbilcl.fbd:
>
>#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
>
>Did you try it?
>
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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