Re: pkg/30308: conflicting local errno in lang/perl5.8

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/30308; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, joerg%leaf.dragonflybsd.org@localhost,
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/30308: conflicting local errno in lang/perl5.8
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:06:10 +0200

 On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:43:14AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
 >      #include <errno.h>
 >      #ifndef errno
 >      extern int errno;
 >      #endif
 > 
 > While this may not be necessarily correct either, at least it would
 > consistent within the Perl sources, and we can wait for something
 > better to appear in future Perl versions.  The Configure script implies
 > that the Perl maintainers are aware of this problem, and will fix it
 > in the future.
 
 That's the same fix as I suggested alternatively to Perl. It's fine
 with me.
 
 Joerg