Could you check if fetchmail.h directly includes
	/usr/include/machine/param.h, if not can you determine what header
	it includes that in turn includes param.h?

	As far as I know, if fetchmail is defining _POSIX_SOURCE and
	including a header file defined by posix then NetBSD is in
	error. If fetchmail is not defining _POSIX_SOURCE then it is
	not asking for a posix environment, so it should not expect
	one. Similarly if it is including a header file not specific by
	posix then it is 'breaking the rules'.

	I'm sure someone can correct me if I've missed anything :)


		David/absolute

	   Raise your standards and lower your expectations...
	            and we'll get along just fine.

On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim) wrote:

> Is the attached message correct in stating that NetBSD's MSGBUFSIZE
> parameter is not "posixly-correct?"
> 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:16:27 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> To: jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
> Cc: fetchmail-friends@thyrsus.com
> Subject: Re: Compile warning under NetBSD-1.3 for fetchmail-4.3.6
> Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 10:37:09 -0500 (EST)
> Resent-From: fetchmail-friends@ccil.org
> 
> > In file included from etrn.c:15:
> > fetchmail.h:31: warning: `MSGBUFSIZE' redefined
> > /usr/include/machine/param.h:99: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
> 
> Yep. This occurs on a few non posix compliant platforms where kernel symbols
> leak into user name space. MSGBUFSIZE is a kernel parameter on netbsd that
> "leaks". Fortunately fetchmail keep redefining it the right way.
> 
> Alan
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