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Date:      Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:22:06 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Manas <bhatt_manas@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: i had to hack regex.h file
Message-ID:  <20010903232206.C42261@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010904060246.73341.qmail@web10706.mail.yahoo.com>; from bhatt_manas@yahoo.com on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:02:46PM -0700
References:  <20010904060246.73341.qmail@web10706.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:02:46PM -0700, Manas wrote:

> Then i search for off_t in other header file and found
> that it was defined in sys/types.h which i duly
> included in regex.h and the gnut got build properly.
> My questions is this. Is it alright for me to hack
> header files like this and should i now revert the
> changes that i have made.=20
> thanks

Usually it's breakage in the source, not in the headers.  In
particular, Linux includes way more headers within other headers than
it's supposed to according to standards, so a lot of software which is
written for Linux is unportable because it wrongly expects half of the
#include work to be done automatically.

If you were using the FreeBSD gnut port, you wouldn't have had to do
any of this because I already added "#include <sys/types.h>" to the
one file in the gnut source code which needs it.

Kris

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