Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/multimedia/assimp

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

On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 12:33:00AM -0500, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 14:35:02 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 05:15:48AM +0000, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> > > Module Name:  pkgsrc
> > > Committed By: gutteridge
> > > Date:         Thu Jan  7 05:15:47 UTC 2021
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >       pkgsrc/multimedia/assimp: distinfo
> > > Added Files:
> > >       pkgsrc/multimedia/assimp/patches: patch-contrib_zip_src_zip.h
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > assimp: build fix for 32-bit architectures
> > 
> > Why not just use stddef.h?
> 
> It needs ssize_t rather than size_t. I'm not sure why they didn't use
> unistd.h, maybe I'm missing something (historical reasons)?

Right, so just use sys/types.h and drop the whole block. Seems much
safer.

Joerg