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>
>>CC: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
>>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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>>
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